Bengals vs. Ravens score, live updates: Cincinnati leads 14–7 at halftime on Thursday Night Football

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A little over a month ago, the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals played one of the best games of this NFL season. The Ravens’ 41-38 overtime win in Cincinnati moved Baltimore to 3-2, and the league’s best offense was in top gear. Lamar Jackson threw for 348 yards and four touchdown passes while the ground game rolled up 175 yards. Not to be outdone, Joe Burrow was phenomenal in the loss, throwing for 392 yards and five scores, along with an interception. Bengals kicker Evan McPherson missed a 53-yard field goal in overtime, allowing the Ravens to win on a Justin Tucker field goal.

That loss dropped Cincinnati to 1-4 on the season, but as they have several times over the last several years, the Bengals have bounced back and enter tonight’s matchup at 4-5, needing a win to climb back in the AFC playoff picture. Baltimore comes in at 6-3 and needs a win to keep pace with the Steelers atop the AFC North.

Live74 updates

  • On a sloppy night for the Ravens defense, they saved their sloppiest for last. They are called offside on a Bengals incompletion and Cincinnati is at the 7. The Bengals still have one timeout.

  • Ja’Marr Chase is up to 10 catches, 259 receiving yards and two touchdowns tonight. God help you if you face him in fantasy.

  • And now a roughing the passer penalty that turns an 18-yard Ja’Marr Chase catch into a 32-yard gain. They’re at the 12-yard line now.

  • Marlon Humphrey is called for the Ravens’ ninth penalty of the night. This time it’s a face mask that moves the Bengals to the Ravens’ 45-yard line. 1:11 still to go.

  • The call stands and the Bengals still have 60 yards to go with 1:36 left and a timeout remaining.

  • The Bengals get the conversion after Burrow weathers a blitz and finds Andrei Iosivas right at the first-down line. The refs review the first-down call and it’s hard to see any reason to overturn it.

  • Oh, looks like the refs missed a face mask on Nnamdi Madubuike on a Joe Burrow incomplete pass. The next one is also incomplete and now the Bengals face 4th and 10.

  • TOUCHDOWN: Ravens go ahead on Lamar Jackson’s 4th TD of the night

    Jackson goes back to Bateman and it’s a touchdown this time. The Bengals get the ball back with 1:49 left and one timeout. With how quickly they’ve scored tonight, this game is nowhere near over.

  • Huge break for the Bengals after the Ravens chose to throw on 2nd-and-goal. Lamar Jackson’s pass to Rashod Batemen falls incomplete, stopping the clock.

  • This play has reached the two minute warning, with the Ravens on 2nd and goal at the Bengals’ 5. Cincinnati has just one timeout left and won’t have much time if they hold the Ravens to a field goal here.

  • The Bengals use their first timeout with 2:16 left and the Ravens have 2nd and 10 at the 24.

  • The Ravens are on the Cincinnati 24, and now the name of the game is burning clock, which is under three minutes after a Derrick Henry first down. The Bengals still have all three timeouts.

  • Lamar Jackson made some magic on a scramble, then threw to the wrong guy: Bengals CB Cam Taylor-Britt. The Bengals started to celebrate a pick, but the replay shows that Taylor-Britt let the ball hit the ground. It’s an incomplete pass and the Ravens avoid disaster.

  • The Ravens entered tonight with the worst passing defense at 280.9 yards allowed per game. Burrow is now up to 390 yards.

  • TOUCHDOWN: Ja’Marr Chase answers with a 70-yard TD

    On the first play of the drive, Joe Burrow finds a wide open Ja’Marr Chase (again) and it results in a 70-yard touchdown catch. He pulled up just short of the zone to draw the play and the M&T Bank Stadium crowd didn’t like it.

    Chase has 238 of the Bengals’ 432 yards tonight.

  • Here’s what happened on the two-point conversion. Just your basic read option with two of the most dangerous runners in the league.

  • This happened just before the comeback started.

  • TOUCHDOWN: Ravens take the lead on Lamar Jackson’s 3rd TD of the night

    The Bengals went 3rd and 9 and didn’t have anyone left to get Mark Andrews. Lamar Jackson finds him and the Ravens are up 28-21 after a successful two-point conversion. That’s 21 straight points after trailing 21-7.