Five extra points: Will Reichard’s key to making 60-yard field goals? Not practicing them.

Vikings kicker Will Reichard thinks we’ll see a 70-yard field goal somewhere in the NFL, maybe even U.S. Bank Stadium, sooner than later.

“Guys are just getting too good,” he said after kicking a 62-yard field goal — a record in 65 seasons of Vikings football and the fifth longest in NFL history — in a 48-10 win over the visiting Cincinnati Bengals. The NFL record is 66 yards.

Asked whether his 62-yarder — a sweet little baby draw that curled just inside the right upright — had another 5 yards on it, he said, “I think so.”

The ball cleared the crossbar at least a quarter of the way up the goal post. “I really went after it, which is why you saw the little draw,” Reichard said.

Two weeks ago, his 59-yarder tied the longest kick in 100 years of football at Soldier Field. Asked what his pregame range was indoors Sunday, Reichard revealed that he doesn’t practice anything longer than 59 yards in-season.

“I normally don’t go back that long during the season just because I feel like trying 60-yarders creates some bad habits,” he said. “But I hit from 59 in pregame and saw that it had some distance left on it.”

Jordan Mason’s first touchdown run as a Viking came behind a rookie left guard who opened the door by blocking two players at two different levels.

Jackson’s first assignment was to double nose tackle T.J. Slaton Jr. with center Michael Jurgens.

“I knew the double with Jurg was solid,” Jackson said. “At that point, I’m reading the linebacker’s toes. [Logan] Wilson’s toes were coming downhill, so that means I leave the double and go get the linebacker because he’ll be in the hole. If he’s flat-footed, I stay on the double. It’s definitely a feel thing. That’s why we practice.”

Jackson shoved the nose tackle left, kicked the linebacker out right, and Mason ran through the safety, Geno Stone, with ease on the 5-yard run.

The Vikings were much better in short yardage Sunday. They went into the game converting only 5 of 15 tries with fewer than 3 yards to go. On Sunday, they were 3-for-3 with two conversions coming on runs right behind Jackson and the interior line. Jackson later left the game briefly when a defender’s facemask was jammed into his nose.

“There was blood everywhere,” Jackson said. “I was catching it in my hands, and they said, ‘You better go to the sideline.’ It still looks straight, though, so I don’t think it’s broken.”

“It was early enough to teach us a great lesson,” Greenard said Sunday after the Vikings stonewalled the Bengals’ feeble running game from the first snap.

“Shoot, they thought they could impose their will, but they ran right into our hands,” added Greenard, who had tackles for loss on runs to open the game and the third quarter.

The Bengals came in averaging an NFL-worst 47 yards rushing and ran for 53 on 21 carries (2.5) with a long of 12 on Sunday. Lead back Chase Brown had 3 yards on 10 carries.

“Obviously, they don’t have a Bijan [Robinson] back there,” said Greenard, referring to the Falcons rusher. “But we learned from last week to treat everybody like Bijan. The tackling was much better because we realized just because we run plays and something is supposed to happen, we actually have to finish the play, make the tackle.”

Next week’s opponent, Pittsburgh, has the league’s third-worst rushing attack.

“I can’t remember the call, but I was hungry, trying to get home,” said Rodriguez, who shot through the A-gap off center Ted Karras’ right shoulder and was 10 yards in the backfield when his dive just missed Browning, who had to scurry off his spot. “I wanted him to be my first sack, but the pressure caused the interception. After that, it was time to turn around and block whatever different-colored jersey I could find.”

Four other defenders chased Browning before Harrison Smith deflected the ball to Rodgers. Rodriguez also doubled his career total for tackles for loss with stops on first-and-10 from the Bengals 7 and first-and-goal at the 1.

“Just winning my matchups,” Rodriguez said. “I got a lot of snaps. Get snaps, learn, get better.”

NFL officials need to stop throwing flags just because something looks too violent to be perfectly legal. Vikings cornerback Jeff Okudah agrees.

“I had no idea why they threw that flag on me,” said Okudah, who was called for unnecessary roughness for a hit on wide receiver Tee Higgins. “They didn’t tell me why, and I had to ask the guys on the sideline what they thought. I couldn’t believe it. They all said, ‘Man, that was a clean hit.’ I hit him in the shoulder. I didn’t hit him in the head. It’s hard to avoid the head, especially when the offensive guy lowers his head a lot of times. But I didn’t hit him in the head.”

“Maybe it was me hitting a big-name offensive player,” Okudah said. “Maybe I’ll hear the clarification of what I did wrong when they send me a fine in the mail this week.”