The Chicago Bears are reaching new heights of shame this week, coming off their devastating loss to the Green Bay Packers in Week 1. They found a new way to be embarrassed on national television without even stepping foot on the field. (Not that they really stepped a foot on the field to play the Packers.)
The Minnesota Vikings played the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday Night Football. Wide receiver Justin Jefferson had an up-and-down night. He had a costly fumble at the goal line towards the end of the first half.
Justin Jefferson puts the Chicago Bears to shame
Jefferson also had 159 receiving yards against the Eagles. And that’s how the Bears wound up getting another knife of a talking point twisted in their back heading into their must-win Week 2 game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Sam Monson with Pro Football Focus pointed out that Jefferson, at 24 years old, has more receiving yards in his NFL career (three years; and two games into the 2023 season.) than any Bears receiver has had in their entire franchise history.
Ouch.
Justin Jefferson is just 24 years old and now has more career receiving yards than any Chicago Bears receiver in the team's history. All 100+ years of it.
— Sam Monson (@PFF_Sam) September 15, 2023
Jefferson now has 5,134 yards receiving in his career.
The Bears’ all-time leading wide receiver is Johnny Morris, who had 5,059 yards receiving in his ten-year career with the Bears. Morris played football for the Bears as a flanker, and he last played for them in the 1967 season.
The Bears are misery exemplified in the passing game. They’re the only NFL team not to have a quarterback throw for 4,000 yards or 30 touchdowns in a single season. Quarterback Justin Fields said he wanted to break that record this season.
But he’s dealing with a lot in Chicago.
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