{"id":377305,"date":"2025-12-29T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/377305\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:00:15","slug":"49ers-lead-bears-28-21-at-halftime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/377305\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers lead Bears 28-21 at halftime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"c9\">Mathematically, you could not have two quarterbacks who entered the league from more disparate positions than Chicago&#8217;s Caleb Williams and San Francisco&#8217;s Brock Purdy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"cc\">Purdy was the very last player chosen in the 2022 draft, 262nd overall. Williams was the No. 1 pick two years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"cf\">Since Purdy returned from a turf toe injury, the 49ers have won five straight, including a win Monday against Indianapolis in which Purdy threw a career-high five touchdowns, with one interception. This season, he has thrown for 1,737 yards, 17 touchdowns and eight interceptions in seven starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"ci\">In his second season, Williams has led six fourth-quarter comebacks, the most in the NFL this season and the most in a season in Bears history. Williams is averaging 226 yards per game, 18 more than last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mathematically, you could not have two quarterbacks who entered the league from more disparate positions than Chicago&#8217;s Caleb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-377305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}