Jamar Chase turned the first NFL game in Madrid into his own showcase, making a one-handed catch through contact for a 13-yard gain and later adding a toe-tapping sideline grab for 14 yards against the Atlanta Falcons. He kept finding ways to separate from coverage while Cincinnati’s offense kept leaning on him.
The Bengals needed the response because Atlanta scored first, but Joe Burrow answered with a 47-yard touchdown pass to Chase, then sneaked in for a go-ahead score later in the game. Chase was not just a highlight reel for one play either; he also came back to the football for an 11-yard reception and later took a short pass and outran nearly the entire Falcons defense for a 31-yard gain, finishing with 142 receiving yards.
That sequence made Chase the center of the afternoon in Madrid, Spain, where the setting mattered as much as the route running. The game was the first NFL contest in Madrid, and it came wrapped in the kind of international stage that magnifies every big catch, every missed tackle and every momentum swing.
The catchwork also sat against a scoreline that kept shifting. Charlie Woerner recorded the NFL’s first touchdown in Madrid, while Nick Folk added a 31-yard field goal and Michael Penix Jr. moved Atlanta with a 23-yard scramble and a later 15-yard pass to Drake London. That left Chase’s best moments standing out even more, because the Falcons were able to strike first and keep pressure on Cincinnati before Burrow and Chase settled the Bengals in.
What comes next is less about the venue than the volume of evidence Chase just added. With 142 receiving yards in the game and multiple difficult catches already on tape, the only unresolved question is how long this version of him can keep turning ordinary snaps into field-flipping plays for the Cincinnati Bengals.
