Ja'Marr Chase

No. 1 · 6th season

Back-to-back: the people who build rosters keep picking the same name

There are fan votes and there are media polls, and then there is the one where the people who actually have to game-plan against you weigh in. Executives, coaches, and scouts — the ones whose jobs depend on getting this right — were asked to name the best wide receiver in football. For the second year running, they wrote down Ja'Marr Chase.

Chase has been one of the most electric pass-catchers in the league since he arrived in Cincinnati, the kind of player defensive coordinators build a whole week of preparation around. The survey result last year could have been a hot take frozen in time. Two years in a row is a verdict.

There is something different about being chosen by the people on the other sideline. Fans root, analysts rank, but opponents know. When the people trying to stop you keep saying your name first, that is about as clean a compliment as the sport offers.

The question now is what a three-peat looks like — and whether anyone is close enough to make it a conversation.

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