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Deja Vu? Tylan Wallace answered again in a big moment
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Deja Vu? Tylan Wallace answered again in a big moment

When Tylan Wallace ran down the sideline on his way to an 84-yard touchdown against the Bengals on Thursday night, he felt a sense of déjà vu.

Last year, Wallace, wearing the same color rush uniforms and tiptoeing along the same sideline, beat the Los Angeles Rams in overtime with a walk-off punt return touchdown.

When Wallace was called up against the Bengals on Thursday night, he was ready again.

With the Ravens trailing in the fourth quarter against the Bengals, Lamar Jackson found Wallace for what looked like a short pickup, but Wallace was unstoppable.

The fourth-year wide receiver broke three tackles, including a stiff arm, and stretched tight along the sideline, hitting the white paint with every step, all the way to the end zone.

It was the big moment of Wallace’s big night when he caught three passes for 115 yards in the Ravens’ 35-34 win. Coming into the game, he had just 98 receiving yards in his career.

“It feels great,” Wallace said of reaching the 100-meter summit for the first time. “Like I said, I’ve always been happy that I could make a difference to the team, make a difference in the game, so to be able to do something like that (for) the first time in my career feels great.”

Since being drafted in the fourth round in 2021, Wallace has played a role on special teams in Baltimore. Wallace mainly gets touches as a punt returner and isn’t asked to do much in the passing game, but he knows the ball can always come.

“I think it’s more of a mentality. You just never know,” Wallace said. “I feel like I had opportunities early on in my career where I was there, and I feel like things didn’t go my way, or you can say I wasn’t ready for those moments.

“I guess you could say experience. The first few years I didn’t really take advantage of those opportunities. So now I always know that you never know when your moment will come.”