GQ: Ja’Marr Chase Is the NFL's Wild Young Wide Out

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It’s after-hours at Il Mulino in Manhattan and Ja’Marr Chase—the best young receiver in the world, diamonds dancing from his wrist to his teeth—is cracking jokes over the dim candlelight. He just finished eating the biggest rack of lamb this side of Australia. “I know I heard about this place,” the 22-year-old says in between sips of wine, his Louisiana timbre tickling the air. “In a Drake song.”

I tell Ja’Marr that Drake was referencing the Il Mulino in Toronto, which closed down, and he laughs.

So far, so good.

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All told, it’s a good time to be Ja’Marr Chase, who tonight has braids peeking out from underneath a hoodie and a Louis Vuitton bag slung across his shoulder. He’s still in the afterglow of a sensational rookie season—a year in which he and his quarterback Joe Burrow, a fellow Louisiana State University alum, emerged together to become what might be the NFL’s most exciting next-gen duo, taking the once-dismal Bengals within a touchdown of a Super Bowl win. So, I say, gimme the real. Why’d the Bengals lose the Super Bowl?


“Joe ain’t give me the ball enough!” Ja’Marr says, laughing. As Ochocinco and Odell before him proved, ain’t nothin’ in the world like a receiver with some attitude.

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