The Cincinnati Bengals had not had a 100-yard rusher in an AFC-longest 20 games. It had been since Giovani Bernard‘s 120-yard performance against San Diego in week two of last season.
Through six games, the Bengals were on pace for 1,437 rushing yards. It would have been a franchise-low mark, two yards shy of the ’95 season when Harold Green was the team’s leading rusher. That all changed Sunday in the first edition of the Battle of Ohio.
Jeremy Hill needed just nine carries to rush for a career-high 168 yards.