Rookie Tyson Bagent led three touchdown drives with Justin Fields sidelined, D’Onta Foreman ran for two scores and caught a TD pass, and the Chicago Bears beat the Las Vegas Raiders 30-12 on Sunday.
The Bears won for the second time in three games after dropping 14 in a row. They won a showdown of backup quarterbacks after both teams' starters were injured the previous week. Fields dislocated his right thumb in a loss to Minnesota, while Las Vegas’threw for 129 yards and two interceptions, and the Raiders got blown out after winning back to back games.
The Bears simplified the game plan and relied on short throws and handoffs with Bagent — undrafted out of Division II Shepherd University in West Virginia — behind center. He completed 21 of 29 passes for 162 yards and a TD, helping Chicago stop a 10-game home losing streak. Foreman ran for 89 yards on 16 attempts and his first two touchdowns since signing with Chicago in March. He scored from the 2 in the first quarter and the 3 early in the second as the Bears grabbed a 14-0 lead, then caught a 5-yard TD in the third to make it 21-3.added two late interceptions.
Hoyer completed 17 of 32 passes and posted a 37.1 passer rating. O’Connell was 10 of 13 for 75 yards with a touchdown and interception., usually a thorn in the Bears’ side, caught seven passes for 57 yards. He came in with 81 catches for 1,024 yards and 10 touchdowns in 16 games against Chicago.missed a 41-yard field goal wide left on Las Vegas' first possession of the game, and the Bears went 69 yards for a touchdown, with Foreman barreling in from the 2.
The Bears had a huge opportunity early in the second quarter when Hoyer's short checkdown pass went off Jacobs' hands.The Bears went 88 yards on their first drive of the third quarter, capped by Foreman's 5-yard TD catch to make it 21-3. Las Vegas then drove to the 5, only to settle for a field goal.
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