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Washington’s Jayden Daniels, who missed two games with an injured left knee, was 15-for-26 for 231 yards and a touchdown to lead the Commanders (3-2) to their first road win.
The Bears are 2-10 in the week after the bye since 2013.
Swift and Moore are from the Mount Airy neighborhood in Philadelphia, while Zaccheaus grew up nearby in New Jersey and played with Swift in high school. All three find it surreal to be playing together in the NFL more than a decade later.
Williams’ numbers are mostly up from his rookie season, but it’s a small sample size and includes a big game against a bad defense. The Bears still need to see growth in several areas coming off the bye week.
NFL picks: The Colts, Cardinals and Lions are the other top plays.
Through four games, the Bears are giving up 6.1 yards per carry, which would be the second-most in the history of the sport were the season to end today.
More than $855 million in taxpayer money will be needed to prep the old Arlington International Racecourse site for a stadium. But the team argues it’ll boost the economy for generations to come.
Johnson has to solve puzzles at both tackle positions.
Blackwell blocked a 54-yard field goal to preserve the Bears’ 25-24 win over the Raiders on Sunday.
At some point during the first month of the season, Williams and coach Ben Johnson noticed something about the Bears’ offense — it was a lot easier to sustain momentum than to spark it.
The plan for the fixed-roof dome with about 60,000 seats is designed by David Manica, the same architect who built Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, where the Bears beat the Raiders on Sunday.
The Bears have big concerns — left tackle, run defense, ground game — that must be addressed if they’re going to stay viable.
He became the first Bear to score in the team’s first four games since Walter Payton did it in 1986.
For the first 21 games of his NFL career, Williams’ late-game efficiency had mostly been a footnote in yet another Bears loss. On Sunday, it led to a 25-24 win.
In a conversation about the Bears’ offensive struggles, Kinkhabwala said, “So you need to change what you’re doing?” and Johnson replied, “I don’t know. You think so? We’re going to be just fine.”
The Bears head into a bye week as a non-disaster. It beats the heck out of the alternative.
After blocking a field-goal attempt to seal it, Josh Blackwell definitely doesn’t have to come to class on Monday.
Special-teams coordinator Richard Hightower narrated the field-goal try in coach Ben Johnson’s headset, trying to will the result he wanted. Blackwell, he said, was going to block this field goal.
Bears QB Caleb Williams emerges in 'supremely tough game' to lead go-ahead drive, beat Raiders 25-24
Williams had a 47.2 passer rating in the first half but a 111.5 rating in the second half. He finished 22-for-37 for 212 yards and a touchdown with an interception for a 73.3 rating. That, plus a lot of help defensively and from special-teams hero Josh Blackwell, was enough to win.