Who is Trenton Irwin? Cincinnati Bengals WR steps up with Tee Higgins, Charlie Jones out

The Cincinnati Bengals were without injured receivers Tee Higgins and Charlie Jones for their NFL Week 10 game Sunday against the Houston Texans at Paycor Stadium, and Ja'Marr Chase is battling a back injury.

Trenton Irwin had a 32-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Joe Burrow during the first quarter, Irwin's first TD catch of the season.

The undrafted former Stanford standout has played parts of five seasons for the Bengals. Earlier this season, Irwin had eight catches for 60 receiving yards against Arizona, adding punt returns of 28 and 21 yards for the best single-game contribution of his career.

What to know about Irwin:

Trenton Irwin and Joe Burrow share the same birthday.

Irwin is exactly one year older than the Bengals' starting quarterback.

Irwin, born December 10, 1995, will turn 28 the same day Burrow will turn 27.

Also born on that date? Ted Karras Jr., the head football coach at Marian University who played one NFL game for Washington in 1987. Karras' son, Ted III, is the Bengals' starting center.

Trenton Irwin joined the Bengals before Burrow, Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins.

After a brief stint with the Miami Dolphins, Irwin was signed to the Bengals' practice squad in October 2019.

The Week 5 win against the Cardinals was just his third NFL start.

Irwin had just three catches for 39 yards over his first three NFL seasons. He has 25 receptions for 325 yards in 14 regular-season games since Week 8 of last season.

Irwin appeared on the 2005 Bravo series 'Sports Kids Moms & Dads' with his father, Craig.

A clip from YouTube:

Craig, a character actor who has appeared in many ads and TV shows, was on hand for Trenton's big game in Arizona on Sunday, and Trenton gave his dad his game ball, per Bengals.com's Geoff Hobson.

Hobson added that Trenton, who appeared in several ads including one for Velveeta as a kid, told Craig he was done acting when he got benched in high school for missing practice to attend a commercial shoot.

At Newhall Hart High School, Trenton set state records with 285 career receptions for 5,268 yards and 57 receiving TDs.

Trenton also got a game ball last December against the Patriots.

After Tyler Boyd aggravated a finger injury and left the game, Irwin scored two of the Bengals' three touchdowns in a 22-18 road win in Foxborough.

Irwin didn't play in the Bengals' first seven games of the 2022 season. He had four TDs in Cincinnati's last nine games of the regular season, and the Bengals' record in those nine games was 8-1.

In 2022, Irwin explained how Burrow really felt about the 'Why not us?' mantra.

"Joe had something to say on that. He didn't like that at all," Irwin said on the "Getcha Popcorn Ready with T.O. & Hatch" podcast on Fubo Sports. "Because he didn't like the underdog narrative. … He never felt like we ever lost a game. We just sort of ran out of time type of thing. … So that was one of my examples for him on his belief system. He said, 'Screw that thing. That ain't us. Like that's not - we don't need to carry that with us.'"

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