Lamar Jackson is on the doorstep of some rare road-company territory.
If the Baltimore Ravens beat the Cincinnati Bengals on New Year’s Eve, Jackson will improve to 5-0 in four starts at Paycor Stadium and move into an even smaller class of quarterbacks who have gone unbeaten on the road against one opponent.
Right now, Jackson’s 4-0 mark at Paycor puts him among 26 quarterbacks since the 1970 merger to go undefeated on the road at a single venue with at least four starts. A win would push him into a group of 10 quarterbacks who have reached 5-0 or better away from home against one team.
Even then, he still would not own the best road record against Cincinnati.
That distinction belongs to Neil O’Donnell, who went 6-0 in Cincinnati while with the Pittsburgh Steelers. O’Donnell’s six road wins in Cincinnati are also six times the number of home wins the Bengals quarterback in 1997 managed that season, when he went 1-4 in five home starts.
Two other quarterbacks also finished perfect in Cincinnati with at least four starts: Dan Marino and Dan Fouts, both of whom went 4-0. Those figures cover regular-season games only. The Bengals did beat Fouts and the Chargers in the 1981 AFC Championship Game in the Freezer Bowl in Cincinnati.
At the very top of the NFL’s road-dominance list is a 9-0 mark, set and matched by Joe Montana. Montana went 9-0 in road games against the Rams and also 9-0 on the road against the Saints.
O’Donnell is part of a three-way tie for third at 6-0. Andrew Luck was perfect at Tennessee, and Peyton Manning did the same at Oakland.
If Jackson gets to 5-0 against the Bengals, he would join the other quarterbacks who reached that mark on the road against a specific opponent.
The Bengals also have their own quarterback history in this area. Joe Burrow is 3-1 at Pittsburgh and could move into a tie for first on Cincinnati’s list this season. If he leads the Bengals to a Week 3 win there, he would join Anderson at 4-1.
Boomer Esiason went 4-2 at Pittsburgh, while Andy Dalton was 5-3 at Cleveland.
The only other Cincinnati quarterbacks with winning road records are:
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