CHICAGO (AP) — Caleb Williams found a wide-open Colston Loveland for a 38-yard catch to set up Cairo Santos’ 38-yard field goal as time expired, and the Chicago Bears picked up a sloppy 27-24 victory over Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday night.
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Bears → find → night
Chicago (7-2) committed five turnovers, including a career-high four interceptions by Williams.
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Chicago → commit → Williams
But he delivered after Mayfield rallied the Buccaneers in the final minutes.
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Mayfield → deliver → minutes
Loveland was pushed out of bounds at the Tampa Bay 16 with 40 seconds left.
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Loveland → push → seconds
After two kneel-downs by Williams, Santos delighted the crowd of 60,470 by drilling his second field goal of the night.
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Santos → delight → night
Chicago had a 24-16 lead when Luther Burden fumbled with 3:38 left and Tampa defensive back Ifeatu Melifonwu returned the ball to the Bears 17.
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Melifonwu → have → Bears
Bucky Irving had an 11-yard carry before going in from the 6 for his second touchdown of the game.
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Irving → have → game
Mayfield scrambled for the 2-point conversion, tying it at 24 with 2:51 left.
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Mayfield → scramble → 2:51
Irving finished with 97 yards on 20 carries.
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Irving → finish → carries
Mayfield failed to complete a pass in Tampa Bay’s previous game, a 16-0 win over Atlanta in wet conditions.
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Mayfield → fail → conditions
The Buccaneers (3-6) rushed for a franchise-record 324 yards in the victory over the Falcons, including 170 by Irving.
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Buccaneers → rush → Irving
Burden had seven catches for 97 yards before he was shelved by a concussion.
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he → have → concussion
Jeffery Simmons had a sack in his first home game since he was acquired in a trade with Tennessee.
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he → have → Tennessee
The Buccaneers and Bears were the NFL’s top rushing teams going into the weekend, but there wasn’t much room to maneuver on the ground.
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Buccaneers → go → ground
The Bucs finished with 126 yards rushing, and the Bears had 72.
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Bears → finish → 72
Chicago had a 17-13 lead when Williams threw his fourth interception of the night, a deflected ball that landed in the hands of Tampa Bay linebacker Alex Anzalone.
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that → have → Anzalone
The Buccaneers took over at the Bears 37 with 4:32 left in the third quarter.
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Buccaneers → take → quarter
One play later, Mayfield tried to throw the ball to Cade Otton, but Jaylon Johnson stepped in front of the tight end and returned the interception 67 yards for his second career pick-6.
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Johnson → try → pick-6
Chicago got off to a fast start, scoring on its first two possessions.
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Chicago → get → possessions
Williams passed to a wide-open Rome Odunze for a 9-yard touchdown on the first drive of the game.
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Williams → pass → game
Then Burden broke a couple of tackles while turning a third-and-8 reception into a 56-yard TD, making it 14-0 with 6:00 left in the first quarter.
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6:00 → break → quarter
But the next two possessions for the Bears ended with interceptions by Williams, and the Buccaneers rallied by scoring on each side of halftime.
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Buccaneers → end → halftime
Chase McLaughlin kicked a 21-yard field goal on the final play of the first half, and Tez Johnson’s 58-yard catch set up Irving’s 2-yard TD early in the third.
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catch → kick → third
S Antoine Winfield Jr. (ankle) departed in the second quarter with an ankle injury.
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Jr. → depart → injury
Bears: CB Tyrique Stevenson had a hand injury.
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Stevenson → have → injury
... CB Kyler Gordon left with an unspecified injury, but he returned to the game.
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he → leave → game
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