Overview
- Chicago beat Cincinnati 47-42 in Week 9 at Paycor Stadium in a high-scoring, back-and-forth game.
- On fourth-and-goal, the Bears ran a ‘Hot Potato’ design with pitches to Rome Odunze and DJ Moore, who threw to a wide-open Caleb Williams for a touchdown.
- Early in the fourth quarter after a takeaway, backup QB Tyson Bagent caught a backward pass and threw back across the field to Williams for roughly 20 yards.
- Caleb Williams became the first NFL player with at least 275 passing, 50 rushing and 20 receiving yards in a game and the first Bears QB since Jim McMahon in 1985 to have multiple TD passes and a TD catch, while DJ Moore logged both a passing and a rushing TD, a Bears WR feat last seen since at least 1960.
- Chicago became the first team to feature a player with three TD passes (Williams), another with a passing and rushing TD (Moore) and a third with at least 150 rushing yards (Kyle Monangai), with players crediting weeks of practice for the clean execution.