The new Bears passing combination of Caleb Williams to Rome Odunze, DJ Moore and Keenan Allen has a mighty low bar to get over considering Bears passing history.
If the selection of Caleb Williams and Rome Odunze , to add to a passing attack already including DJ Moore, Keenan Allen , Cole Kmet and Gerald Everett feels to Bears fans like uncharted territory, there's a good reason.
They've never had a potential passing attack like this one in the past. Considering the team had been around since the beginning of the league, it's both disgraceful for the franchise and exciting for fans to see something new.The well known fact is the Bears have never had a 4,000-yard passer and are the only team never to have one. They're not too far from plenty of teams in this regard, though.
However, a truly more disturbing statistic is how many times the Bears have had 3,000-yard passers. They've had 12 of them. The Texans are the only team with less. They've had 10 and they didn't exist until 2001. The Bears had an 80-year head start on Houston and have two more 3,000-yard seasons by passers."It really reminds me of all the key pieces that I had in college and the pieces coming together for the incredible seasons that we had," Odunze said.
Kramer threw for 29 touchdowns and 7.4 yards per attempt but only completed 60.3% . His 93.5 passer rating was accomplished completing 82 for 1,301 yards and four TDs to Jeff Graham, 62 for 1,037 and 12 TDs to Curtis Conway and 25 completions to wide receiver Michael Timpson. The best tight end was Keith Jennings with 25 receptions. The Bears went 9-7 and missed the playoffs.Cutler's best yardage season wasn't his best overall passing season.
His best contribution might have been 7.6 yards an attempt as they were able to get bigger yards out of a play-action passing game and effective running game even though he completed just 60.4% . It wasn't a receiver corps with marquee names as Knox led in catches and yards . He and Olsen had five TD catches each. Bennet and Hester were the other targets.Their last division title might have been their best all-around passing season. Trubisky had a career-best 95.4 passer rating and 7.
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