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CHAD OCHOCINCO<br />
85<br />
Wide Receiver Offensive Tackle<br />
Ht: 6-1<br />
Wt: 192<br />
9th year in NFL<br />
<strong>Bengals</strong>’ all-time leader in receptions (612) and<br />
receiving yards (8905), Ochocinco looks for a comeback<br />
year in <strong>2009</strong> … Limited to 13 games with 10 starts last<br />
season, and missed selection for Pro Bowl for the first<br />
time in six years … Had 53 catches for 540 yards (10.2<br />
avg.) and tied for team TD lead (four) … Has active teamrecord<br />
streak of 105 regular-season games played with<br />
at least one catch … In the fi ve seasons from 2003-07,<br />
he posted the fi ve highest season receiving yards totals<br />
in <strong>Bengals</strong> history, making the Pro Bowl each year … Is<br />
the only Bengal ever to lead NFL in receiving yards for a<br />
season (1369 yards in ’06).<br />
2008 PARTICIPATION: Played in Games 1-10 and<br />
12-14 … Inactive for Game 11, Nov. 20 at Pittsburgh, due<br />
to team rules violation, halting streak of 113 consecutive<br />
games played (seventh in team history) … Inactive Games<br />
15-16 with hamstring injury … Opened regular season<br />
in lineup despite missing last two preseason games with<br />
shoulder injury suffered Aug. 17 vs. Detroit … Leads<br />
current roster in total <strong>Bengals</strong> starts (106) … Second on<br />
current roster in total <strong>Bengals</strong> games played (121).<br />
2008 HIGHLIGHTS: His three catches for 28 yards<br />
day Sept. 28 vs. Cleveland included four-yard TD catch<br />
from Ryan Fitzpatrick … Also vs. Browns, recovered<br />
fumble by CB Eric Wright, following an INT by Wright …<br />
On Oct. 19 vs. Pittsburgh, logged personal-season best<br />
in receptions (eight) and had 52 yards, including five-yard<br />
TD catch from Ryan Fitzpatrick in second quarter … In<br />
win Nov. 2 vs. Jacksonville, scored first two <strong>Bengals</strong> TDs,<br />
on receptions of two yards (fi rst quarter) and 10 yards<br />
(second quarter) … On Dec. 7 at Indianapolis, registered<br />
a personal season-high 79 yards on five receptions.<br />
NAME CHANGE: Ochocinco played as “Chad<br />
Johnson” for the fi rst seven years of his <strong>Bengals</strong> career.<br />
He changed his last name to Ochocinco prior to the 2008<br />
season. The <strong>Bengals</strong> now use the name Ochocinco for all<br />
references to him, including notations of statistics and<br />
records he posted prior to the change.<br />
CHAD’S RECORD FILE: Following is a list of<br />
<strong>Bengals</strong> records held by Ochocinco:<br />
Receptions/career: 612.<br />
Receiving yards/career: 8905.<br />
College: Oregon State<br />
2008 Games-Starts: 13-10<br />
Career Games-Starts: 121-105<br />
— 73 —<br />
Acquired: D2’01<br />
(36th overall)<br />
Born: 1-9-78<br />
Receiving yards/game: 260 on Nov. 12, 2006 vs.<br />
San Diego.<br />
Receiving yards/season: 1440 in 2007 (Ochocinco<br />
has the top five seasons in club history).<br />
Receiving yards/consecutive games: 450, vs. San<br />
Diego and at New Orleans in 2006 (also an NFL record).<br />
100-yard receiving games/career: 26.<br />
90+ receptions seasons: Four.<br />
100-yard receiving games/season: Five (shared).<br />
Receiving TDs/game: Three (shared).<br />
NOBODY BUT CHAD: Ochocinco is the only NFL<br />
player to lead his conference (AFC or NFC) in receiving<br />
yards for four consecutive seasons. He turned the trick<br />
from 2003 through ’06. Only two other players, Tim Brown<br />
of Oakland and Jerry Rice of San Francisco, have been<br />
conference leaders for even three consecutive seasons.<br />
They both did three straight from 1993-95, Brown in the<br />
AFC and Rice in the NFC.<br />
BACK-TO-BACK BONANZA: Ochocinco set a<br />
<strong>Bengals</strong> single-game record for receiving yards (260)<br />
on Nov. 12, 2006 vs. San Diego, snapping an Eddie<br />
Brown mark of 216 that had stood since ’88. And when<br />
Ochocinco added 190 yards the following week at New<br />
Orleans, he established an NFL record for receiving yards<br />
in two consecutive games (450). He broke the two-game<br />
receiving yards mark of 448 set by San Francisco’s John<br />
Taylor in ’89.<br />
DUAL LEADS ARE DAZZLING: Ochocinco is the<br />
only Bengal to have led the AFC in both receiving yards<br />
and receptions in a season. He has won four AFC yards<br />
crowns (2003-06) and one receptions title (2005). Isaac<br />
Curtis (1973) and Eddie Brown (‘88) each led the AFC<br />
in receiving yards once, but neither won a catches title.<br />
Carl Pickens (1995 and ’96) and T.J. Houshmandzadeh<br />
(2007) won AFC receptions crowns but no conference<br />
receiving yards titles.<br />
MORE FROM PREVIOUS SEASONS: 2001—<br />
Drafted by <strong>Cincinnati</strong> in second round (36th overall) …<br />
Entered draft after his junior season at Oregon State …<br />
Signed July 18 … Finished third on team in receiving<br />
yards (329), despite missing four games with fractured<br />
left clavicle he suffered Oct. 14 vs. Cleveland … Made<br />
STAFF<br />
ROSTERS<br />
VETERANS<br />
<strong>2009</strong> DRAFT CHOICES<br />
COLLEGE FREE AGENTS<br />
2008 REVIEW<br />
HISTORY RECORDS STADIUM , NFL & MEDIA
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