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Week 1

Weekly
Grade
Cincinnati Bengals
1-0 212.42
268.37
 
VS
proj
San Francisco 49ers
180.84 0-1
200.3

Cincinnati Bengals find way to beat San Francisco 49ers 212.42-180.84 despite falling short of predictions

Despite being unable to bring their A game and falling short of projections, Cincinnati Bengals secured a 212.42-180.84 victory over San Francisco 49ers. Cincinnati Bengals never trailed in this one after nabbing a 33.42-point lead early Sunday afternoon behind Ja'Marr Chase (31.9 points) and Joe Mixon (21.5). Minkah Fitzpatrick (37 points) and T.J. Watt (21.5) were the leading performers for San Francisco 49ers in the loss. Cincinnati Bengals (1-0) will look to earn another win against Kansas City Chiefs, while San Francisco 49ers (0-1) will match up against Baltimore Ravens in an effort to get back on track.

Matchup Timeline

  Cincinnati Bengals   San Francisco 49ers

Inside the Matchup

Matchup Player of the Week

Hilliard scored 24.9 points in a 21-20 loss to the Giants to more-than-triple his 7.38-point projection. He caught 3 passes for 61 yards and 2 touchdowns to beat his projection by the highest percentage of any player on Cincinnati Bengals this week. Next week, Hilliard will go up against the Bills.
Dontrell Hilliard

Top Player Comparison

Cincinnati Bengals
Points
% of total points 212.42
1
Ja'Marr Chase
WR
31.9
20.58
15%
2
Dontrell Hilliard
RB
24.9
7.38
11.7%
3
Joe Mixon
RB
21.5
17.32
10.1%
4
Foye Oluokun
LB
18
13.75
8.5%
San Francisco 49ers
Points
% of total points 180.84
1
Minkah Fitzpatrick
S
37
12.37
20.5%
2
T.J. Watt
LB
21.5
1.5
11.9%
3
Antoine Winfield Jr.
S
15
13.11
8.3%
4
Nick Bosa
DE
12.5
10.74
6.9%

Matchup Highlights

Sunday Early
Trey Lance had a 44-yard pass for San Francisco 49ers, who trailed 169.12-135.70 after the early games.
Sunday Late
Dontrell Hilliard had a 23-yard touchdown catch for Cincinnati Bengals, contributing to a 212.42-165.84 lead for the team.

Points By Position

  Cincinnati Bengals   San Francisco 49ers

Game Notes

Only seven of the 22 starters on Cincinnati Bengals exceeded their projected scoring totals.
San Francisco 49ers had only eight of their 22 starters score higher than their projected points.
The final result could've looked differently, as Cincinnati Bengals had two starters score zero points, while San Francisco 49ers had two.
Neither team was able to achieve its projected point total.
The matchup's 31.58-point margin was the sixth-largest in the league this week.
Vegas wouldn't be too happy with Cincinnati Bengals. They got the W, but failed to cover the 68.07-point projected margin of victory.
For San Francisco 49ers, Minkah Fitzpatrick registered 37 points, the top overall score for an S this week.

Coach Talk

Cincinnati Bengals
Identifying mismatches is a huge key to success in football. We not only dominated San Francisco 49ers at WR (73.96 points to 28.24), we also nearly tripled them at RB (54 to 18.52).
San Francisco 49ers
Zero touchdowns and an interception for Trey Lance against the Bears this week. Zero wins and one loss for San Francisco 49ers on the 2022 season. Normally I'm pretty old-school when it comes to all these fancy numbers and stuff... but our analytics folks keep hitting me up, saying that this is the kind of "correlation" we should try to be avoiding.