The Vikings had thrown an incompletion in Week 1 when Bears safety Jaquan Brisker, who was positioned deep to help cover Justin Jefferson, started talking trash to the star receiver.
Jefferson, who was wearing a microphone, laughed about being taunted by someone who wasn’t even in charge of guarding him.
“I love when they talk [trash] to me, double-teaming me,” he told his teammates on the sideline.
The Bears better be careful about poking the bear, particularly this week. The Ravens just held Jefferson to one of the worst games of his career. He had four catches on 12 targets for 37 yards in the loss Sunday.
Jefferson is one of the all-time Bears killers. His average showing in nine career games against the Bears is six catches on nine targets for 81 yards. He has four touchdowns.
Since 2015, only Davante Adams has posted more career receiving yards against the Bears than Jefferson, who has 729 since joining the league in 2020.
“One of the best receivers in the game,” cornerback C.J. Gardner-Johnson said. “We gotta get out there and play our game and play a team game and try to stop him.”
In the season opener, Jefferson had four catches for 44 yards. The Bears can’t expect him to do that again.
Cornerback Nahshon Wright knows what to expect. He spent all of last year on the Vikings’ practice squad, going up against the four-time Pro Bowl receiver.
“Super-competitive guy,” Wright said. “In practice, he works hard. You see the results in the game.”
Jefferson marks the second star receiver the Bears have faced in three weeks. They gave up 111 yards to the Bengals’ Ja’Marr Chase in Week 9. Wright didn’t want to compare the two.
“They’re 1A, 1B, however you wanna put it,” he said.
The Bears get a chance to finally get an NFC North win Sunday when they face the Vikings.
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Since the two were picked in the same draft class last year, Bears quarterback Caleb Williams has played 1,718 snaps. The Vikings’ J.J. McCarthy, slowed by right knee and ankle injuries, has played 230.
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Williams says the pressure in late-game scenarios forces him and the offense to rise up.
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