Among the most anticipated games of the Cincinnati Bengals calendar in 2025 there is a week 3 game with the Vikings in Minnesota.
The match, scheduled for Sunday, September 21 at 1 p.m., the East, is expected to present a university meeting of the former Lsu tigers‘teammates: the Bengals of Cincinnati‘Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase, and the Vikings du Minnesota“Justin Jefferson.
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The three played for the 2019 Tigers, a team that ended the 15-0 season and won the CFP national championship.
“Old friends will meet again on week 3,” NFL on CBS tweeted.
The former teammates of the LSU Joe Burrow of the Bengals of Cincinnati and Justin Jefferson of the Vikings of Minnesota
What to know about the Bengals-Vikings game:
The Bengals won two previous meetings Chase against Jefferson, both in overtime.
Bengals and Vikings have faced each other twice since 2020, the year Burrow was the choice of first round of Cincinnati (first in total) and Jefferson was the choice of the first round of Minnesota (22nd in total).
The Bengals won the two games, both by the same result 27-24. The two games were played in Cincinnati; Burrow played during the first meeting but missed the second.
The first regular NFL of Chase career match came against the Vikings.
During its beginnings of the NFL on September 12, 2021, in Cincinnati, Chase succeeded five catches for 101 reception yards with a touchdown.
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It was also burrow First return match After undergoing a knee injury at the end of the season in 2020. He had 261 yards by the pass and two affected.
Jefferson had five catches in this match, for 71 yards.
A few weeks later, Chase broke the record for the NFL of Jefferson for the reception of the yards in one season.
Bengals and Vikings met in December 2023.
Jefferson, who wore a “Bayou trio” sweatshirt with himself, Chase and Burrow on it during the pre-match warming, had seven receptions for 84 yards. Chase had four catches for 64 yards.
Burrow did not play, having suffered an injury at the end of the season against Baltimore four weeks earlier.
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Tee Higgins made one of the most impressive catches of his career, on a pass from Jake Browning.
The Vikings will have their third quarter-rear starting in three meetings with the Bengals.
Kirk Cousins was a quarter of Minnesota for the match in 2021. Nick Mullens was the QB of the Vikings when the two teams met in 2023.
JJ McCarthy, the 10th choice in total in the 2024 draft, missed all of his recruited season with a knee injury.
He will probably be the QB of Vikings in week 3, and could face the former teammates of Michigan, Dax Hill, DJ Turner and Kris Jenkins.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Bengals-Vikings Week 3: Joe Burrow, Ja’mar Chase vs Justin Jefferson
