It might be hard to believe, but the 2025 NFL regular season is starting to wind down. Following Monday night’s results, there will be just seven games remaining before the start of the playoffs. With so many bad teams in the league this year, the playoff picture is more condensed than it has been in quite some time. For the Chicago Bears, a win on Sunday brought a sizable jump for their playoff chances, and a Vikings loss all but knocked Minnesota out of the mix. There was plenty on the line this weekend in the NFC, and the results...

The 2025 Chicago Bears have five fourth-quarter comeback wins among their seven wins thus far, and that’s tied with the Denver Broncos for the most comebacks this season. Yesterday’s 19 to 17 come-from-behind win over the Minnesota Vikings was fueled by the special teams, but all three phases have had their big moments in the improbable quintet of victories for Chicago.

The Bears are just the third team in the last five years with a game-winning score in the final two minutes of regulation or overtime in three straight weeks, joining the Washington Commanders last season and the Tampa Bay...

The Chicago Bears did it again! Another win, this week against the Minnesota Vikings, that took all 60 minutes, but in the end, they came out on top. The Bears are 7-3 on the season, which is the first time they’ve been 7-3 since 2018. This was an important game to win in order to split with a division rival.

There is no question that the Bears have areas they need to improve on, and these wins haven’t always been the cleanest. Regardless, it’s been an exciting season. Let’s hand out this week’s Windy City Honors superlative awards.

Toughest Player...

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Why was Bears’ Nahshon Wright so emotional after interception, win? ‘I gained an angel’ – The Athletic

With a heavy heart, Wright delivered a highlight-reel takeaway in tribute to his former coach, the late John Beam.

Bears’ latest comeback comes courtesy of returner Devin Duvernay, kicker Cairo Santos – Chicago Sun-Times

The Beas’ path to their seventh win in 10 games wasn’t a straight line Sunday. It was a diagonal one that started when Devin Duvernay caught the ball at his own 4 with a one-point deficit and 50 seconds to play.

[**Bears take another...

There’s still one more game to play in Week 11, but the Monday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys* and the Las Vegas Raiders won’t impact the current playoff seedings in the NFC.

The Chicago Bears are in first place in the NFC North, and this is the latest the Bears have had the division lead since the 2018 season. There’s still a lot of football left, but we’re in mid-November, and the Bears have positioned themselves to be playing relevant games down the stretch.

NFC standings after Week 11

1. Philadelphia Eagles (8-2, win over LAR)
2....

Here we are. Yet another win despite not playing a clean, complimentary football game. But a huge divisional win, no less. Arguably, the most important win of the season for the Chicago Bears on the road against the rival Minnesota Vikings. Let’s get to my notes in this one.

Offense:

• Immediately stoked to see Luther Burden III starting as WR3 over Olamide Zaccheaus. I thought Burden had an up-and-down day, showing both why he earned this opportunity and also why it has taken this long to earn the trust of his coaches and teammates. The Vikings played a...

When Aaron Rodgers officially signed his contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers this summer, there were a lot of Chicago Bears fans who circled the November 23 game. Rodgers, who terrorized the Bears for years while wearing the green and gold, would be back in Soldier Field for likely the final time.

But earlier today, in the Steelers’ 34 to 12 win over the Cincinnati Bengals, Rodgers suffered what is reported to be a broken left wrist, and ESPN’s Adam Schefter says it is “shaping up” to be Mason Rudolph starting at quarterback for the Steelers. Rodgers will have his wrist...

With a 54-yard field goal at 10:31 of he third quarter, Cairo Santos set the Chicago Bears record with his 24th field goal from at least 50 yards, breaking Robbie Gould’s record, which has stood since 2015. Santos is now 24 of 33 (72.7%) from 50+ in his Chicago career.

But that 54-yarder wasn’t his most memorable make in the Bears’ 19 to 17 win over the Minnesota Vikings, because he nailed a 48-yard walkoff to give the Bears their seventh victory this season.

Santos was four or five in the game, with his miss coming from 45 yards earlier...

When the Chicago Bears opened their season against the Minnesota Vikings in Week 1, they got out to a strong lead highlighted by a strong defensive performance, only for Minnesota to inch their way back into the game and win. The Week 11 game was eerily similar, even down to the last-minute lead that the Vikings took over. This time, though, the Bears got down the field to respond back with a last-second field goal, winning 19-17 to improve to 7-3.

Chicago got out to a 16-3 lead to begin the fourth quarter, but two touchdown drives led by J.J....

The Chicago Bears lost the season opener to the Minnesota Vikings, 27 to 24, after being up 17 to 6 after three quarters. But two Minnesota touchdown passes by J.J. McCarthy, followed by a touchdown run by him, and the Vikings were up 27 to 17. Chicago quickly answered with a Caleb Williams touchdown run, capping off a 65-yard drive in 51 seconds. But with 2:02 left on the clock, the Minnesota kickoff return brought the game under two minutes, and with just one timeout, there wasn’t going to be enough time for the Bears.

Chicago got the ball back...

The Chicago Bears (6-3) are on the road to take on their NFC North rival, the Minnesota Vikings (4-5), and both teams have just announced their inactive players for the game.

And we have them right here.

CHICAGO BEARS INACTIVES

QB – Case Keenum (3rd QB)

LB – T.J. Edwards

WR – Jahdae Walker

CB – Jaylon Jones

DT – Chris Williams

The Bears officially ruled Jaylon Johnson out for the game, but considering he’s on injured reserve and in his 21-day practice window, that was expected.

The Bears also didn’t elevate anyone from the practice squad for today’s game....

Good morning. The Chicago Bears are officially in the playoff picture, for now.

Granted, they’ll have to start winning some of the tougher and/or divisional matchups down the stretch to ensure they stay there, but today’s game against the Minnesota Vikings would be a great start to that.

The Bears have not made winning easy over the last seven games, but finding a way to get six of them in the win column is nothing short of a good thing. We know this isn’t a finished product of a team, and they know that as well.

So naturally, when we...