Modern football is all about big plays and as a companion piece to the STEP Differential, I’m tracking the Bears big plays all year in this Infogram:

Remember that you can click into the tabs on the lower left to see the tally by player and you can hover over any of the shapes on the right hand side of the visual to see a description of each play. Like last year, I’ll color code the plays on the right with the team color of the opponent. New this year I’ve added a timestamp this year to each play. Someone...

The NFL regular season has just two games remaining, and in the process, the playoff race down the stretch has heated up. Coming into Week 16, two teams had clinched playoff spots, and before Sunday’s action, two more followed suit. During that chase, there were plenty of compelling games throughout the weekend. All in all, it was another great weekend of football, with plenty of potential playoff previews in the process. Who is up and who is down heading into Week 17? Let’s find out in this installment of WCG NFL Power Rankings.

1. Seattle Seahawks (12-3) Previous Week: 3...

It was just last week when we were comparing a Caleb Williams-to-DJ Moore touchdown pass and catch to one of the most iconic plays in NFL history. Caleb’s touchdown pass in the Browns game mirrored Joe Montana’s iconic roll right, then throw to the back of the end zone, as Dwight Clark jumped up to snatch the ball for the score.

The plays were aesthetically similar, but Montana to Clark in the 1981 NFC Championship Game against the Dallas Cowboys, to send the San Francisco 49ers to their first Super Bowl, was a far bigger moment than the Bears beating...

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The Bear’s Den: December 22, 2025

Patrick Finley: Caleb Williams has officially arrived in the Bears-Packers rivalry

The rookie quarterback shook off a slow start to deliver a signature performance, leading three consecutive scoring drives in the final minutes. Williams’ poise in the face of a double-digit deficit suggests the tide may finally be turning in the NFL’s oldest rivalry.

Defense holds firm: Bears allow zero touchdowns on five Packers red-zone trips

In a statistical anomaly, the Chicago defense held Green Bay to zero touchdowns despite five drives reaching the red zone....

It’s been quite the few days for the Chicago Bears. After an all-time thriller on Saturday night resulted in an improbable victory over the rival Packers, Ben Johnson’s team benefitted from another bizarre ending Sunday afternoon as the Pittsburgh Steelers managed to *narrowly* hold on for a victory over the Detroit Lions that clinched a Chicago playoff berth. Either one of these events alone would be enough to send the Bears fanbase into the holiday with joy in our hearts, but news from the NFL on Monday morning has given us even more to be excited about in the form...

Slow start to this one before the big finish helped Caleb to a nice stat line of 250 yards and two scores. The DJ Moore TD was his 6th of the season, tying him for the team lead with Rome Odunze. Jahdae Walker gets his first. Awesome stuff.

Caleb sits at 3,400 yards and needs to average 219.5 yards per game to pass Erik Kramer’s single-season franchise mark of 3,838 and 300 yards per game to hit 4,000. The Lions have given up the 7th most passing yards on defense so far this year while the 49ers are a little...

Five NFC teams have clinched a playoff spot, but only one team has its division locked up: the Philadelphia Eagles. There are still four teams vying for the number one seed: the three NFC West teams (Seahawks, Rams, and 49ers) and the Chicago Bears.

Chicago’s path to number one would be to win out while having the Seattle Seahawks lose one of their remaining two games (at Carolina, at San Francisco).

If the Bears win at least one more game, they’ll finish no lower than the two seed.

If the Bears lose their final two, they could drop as far...

Coming into Week 16, the Chicago Bears had an opportunity to clinch a playoff spot with a win on Saturday night and a Detroit Lions’ loss on Sunday afternoon. For the first time in five seasons, Bears fans finally got to entertain playoff-clinching scenarios. Of course, their playoff future, at least in the moment, relied on beating the Green Bay Packers. This was the second time in three weeks the two teams had played, but with key injuries on both sides, it wasn’t the same kind of game.

With plenty on the line for both teams, Saturday night’s final regular-season...

The Cardiac Bears do it again! Like many other games this season, the Chicago Bears 22-16 comeback win over the Green Bay Packers took years off all our lives, but wow. What a game! It will easily go down as one of the best regular season games in general and one of the best Bears-Packers games of all time. It will be one of those “I remember exactly where I was at” type of wins.

The Bears improve to 11-4 on the season atop the NFC North. What an incredible season thus far. Here are week 16’s Windy City Honors...

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By the Numbers: Bears’ OT Win Over Packers

ChicagoBears.com breaks down the key stats from Saturday night’s epic comeback, including the team’s franchise-record sixth win this season after trailing in the final two minutes and Chicago’s resilient scoring bursts late and in overtime.

Bears Stun Packers 22-16 With Improbable Rally

Yahoo Sports details how the Bears overcame what was almost a 99% loss probability to take over the NFC North, with a clutch onside kick recovery and a walk-off TD from Williams to Moore.

**[5 Big Takeaways From Chicago Bears’ 22-16 Win...

The (11-4) Chicago Bears get a cold-weather respite for their next game, but they have to fly out west to do so. On Sunday night, December 28, the Bears will be at Levi’s Stadium to take on the (10-4) San Francisco 49ers. The early weather look-ahead calls for a high of 51 and a low of 42 with no rain in the forecast.

That sounds like perfect football weather to me.

The ‘Niners don’t play this week’s game until tomorrow on Monday Night Football against the Indianapolis Colts, but they’ve won four straight and, like the Bears, have clinched a...

With the Lions’ loss to the Steelers on Sunday, the Chicago Bears have secured a spot in the 2025-26 NFL playoffs in Ben Johnson’s first season as the team’s head coach.

It’s been an entertaining season from start to finish for the Bears, who have turned around from a 5-12 record last season to make it to the postseason. Among many other highlights, Caleb Williams has led the team to an NFL-best six fourth-quarter comebacks and a 6-1 record at home. The defense leads the league in takeaways created, and the team as a whole is 7-2 in one-score matchups....