Bears quarterback Caleb Williams faked a handoff right, rolled left and, like he had seemingly all afternoon, didn’t know whether to throw or run.
With tight end Cole Kmet in the left flat, Williams tucked the ball and sprinted up the left sideline with the end zone in his sights. Seventeen yards later and with 1:47 left, he was standing in the end zone, capping a 24-20 comeback win against the pitiful Giants on a blustery day at Soldier Field.
With four minutes to play, the Bears trailed the Giants by 10. Williams had sprinted 29 yards up the same left sideline before getting blasted to the ground by the Giants’ Dru Phillips. With no time to waste, Williams ran to the line of scrimmage and barked out a play.
With Williams struggling to catch his breath, he took the shotgun snap and found receiver Rome Odunze open in the end zone for a touchdown, capping a 91-play drive that kept the Bears alive against one of the league’s worst teams.
After the Bears’ defense finally stopped the Giants and punter Jamie Gillan shanked a kick, Williams had his chance to win the game. After a seven-yard D’Andre Swift run started the Bears’ final drive, Williams hit Luther Burden on a fade-stop route down the right sideline. Once he was tackled, the Bears had gained 27 yards and sat at the Giants’ 19 at the two-minute warning. On the next play, Williams ran the play-action fake and sprinted up the sideline to score.
That the Bears played a close one against the Giants was troubling. The Bears defense made rookie Jaxson Dart look like Steve Young, allowing him to go 19-for-29 for 242 yards and run six times for 66 yards. He was concussed on a third-quarter run when cornerback C.J. Gardner-Johnson forced a fumble on his planned run. Russell Wilson, his replacement, struggled on the game’s final drive. On fourth-and-10 from the 46 with 38 seconds to play, Wilson was hit by blitzing linebacker Tremaine Edmunds and thew incomplete.
Williams went 20-for-36 for 220 yards and one touchdown. He ran seven times for 64 yards.
It wasn’t pretty until quarterback Caleb Williams took matters into his own hands — and legs — late in a 24-20 win.
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Odunze cracked a couple jokes after the 24-20 win over the Giants about his dad calling for the Bears to get him the ball more often.
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Caleb Williams tucked the ball and sprinted up the left sideline with the end zone in his sights. Seventeen yards later and with 1:47 left , he was standing in the end zone, capping a 24-20 comeback win.
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