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Since it’s a short week with the Bengals set to play the Vikings Saturday (1 p.m.-Cincinnati’s Channel 9, NFL Network) at Paycor Stadium, Bengals.com senior writer Geoff Hobson had to conduct a quick interview with rookie running back Chase Brown. Not quite as fast as last Sunday’s 54-yard run-and-catch, Brown’s first NFL touchdown clocked at 22.05 miles per hour, second-best on the NFL GPS this season.

But Brown’s NFL journey has been anything but meteoric. The resilient and determined story of his Toronto childhood with twin Sydney as his family persevered through illness and poverty captured the nation during the NFL Draft.

Now, suddenly, the dream is beginning to be realized. As sudden as a 54-yard blip.

The conversation:

GH: Every day you write down your routine for the day the night before. Did you do it last night?

CB: I still do it. Kind of have it down now. It’s like bullet points. Before it was a lot more exact. Now it’s just bullet points.

GH: Because you don’t have time?

CB: Yeah, but also we all become more efficient as we become wiser. So, I don’t write out every little thing now, but little bullet points to follow for the day.

GH: What did you put down for last Sunday?

CB: The usual. Wake up at seven, be ready by nine, drive at 9:30. Review the plays once I get in. Stretch. Same little routine with the hyper-vise and little stuff like that for the pregame and then warm up with the team and start rolling.

GH: Do you write down just what you do have to do for work and football?

CB: Mostly for what I’m going to do when I’m particularly busy just so my mind is clear and I’m organized going into pregame. But postgame, we’ve got some time to relax and have my family here. So my time with them isn’t exactly organized, so I don’t write that down.

GH: What did you guys do Sunday after the game?

CB: I really didn’t do anything. My brother was playing that night, so I watched him play. He’s playing for the Eagles, so that was my treat. I got to watch him play.

GH: How did he do?

CB: He did well. The team struggled a little bit. As far as him playing his role, he did a good job.

GH: Special teams, right?

CB: Special teams and he played a lot at safety because (Reed) Blankenship went down, so he was he was out there pretty much the entire game.

GH: He probably played more than you did.

CB: He probably got more snaps. He probably did.

(Chase played a career-high 18 snaps, Sydney played a career-high 58 in the Eagles’ loss to the Cowboys.)

GH: Did you talk to him after? Did you guys talk about your game?

CB: I did. Obviously disappointed. Losing sucks. He was definitely excited, pumped up (about his TD). We briefly talked about that, but we’re more like checking in on each other. Like, What’s new? We really don’t talk football when we talk. It’s, what’s going on? What’s new?

GH: Do you talk every day or every week …?

CB: Probably every single day. Every other day. If it’s not one day, I know I’m going to talk to him the next day. Constant talk.

GH: Twins, right? Do you have that spiritual thing going that people say twins have? They know what the other person is feeling if they’re apart?

CB: Twin telepathy? I know I know. I can look in his eyes and know what he’s thinking.

GH: Do you think he felt like he was going 22.05 miles per hour like you were on your touchdown run?

CB: Probably. Probably. He said he was standing up on the bed jumping around as he was watching.

GH: And then when you’re watching the game, can you see what he’s thinking at all or can you kind of sense what he’s thinking if he makes a tackle or something?

CB: Yeah, yeah. I know what he’s thinking. I played with him for four years at Illinois. I know him. I know the way he reacts. Just by the look on his face I know what he’s thinking.

GH: That’s got to be fun.