{"id":405459,"date":"2026-01-11T03:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405459\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T03:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:53:06","slug":"packers-vs-bears-nfc-wild-card-round-live-score-updates-chicago-fighting-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405459\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers vs. Bears NFC Wild Card Round Live Score, Updates: Chicago Fighting Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Round 1 went to the Green Bay Packers<\/a>. Round 2? A stunning Chicago Bears<\/a> win on the road. Now, the longtime NFC North rivals will meet again for a rare Round 3 in the NFL<\/a> playoffs.<\/p>\n

Quarterbacks Jordan Love<\/a> and Caleb Williams<\/a> headline the marquee for a wild-card showdown at Soldier Field in Chicago. The Bears, winners of the NFC North, will host a playoff game as division champs for the first time in seven years. Williams will look to add to his historic season<\/a> by leading Chicago to its first playoff win since 2010 in its first playoff appearance in five years.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Love’s Packers will compete in a third straight postseason with a good chance to advance further than their divisional-round run in 2023 and their wild-card loss last season.<\/p>\n

Follow along below for all the highlights and live analysis from FOX Sports’ NFL reporter Ben Arthur<\/a> from a prime-time wild-card matchup between the Packers and Bears:<\/p>\n

10:49p ET<\/p>\n

Bears showing signs of life in close game in Chicago <\/p>\n

10:03p ET<\/p>\n

Williams’ red-zone INT ends promising drive after FG <\/p>\n

9:44p ET<\/p>\n

Halftime: Packers dominate Bears to take early 21-3 lead <\/p>\n

9:18p ET<\/p>\n

Packers score 3rd TD after questionable Bears turnover on downs <\/p>\n

8:53p ET<\/p>\n

Packers score TD after Williams tosses pick on fourth down <\/p>\n

8:36p ET<\/p>\n

1st Quarter – 2:06: Packers 7, Bears 3 <\/p>\n

8:30p ET<\/p>\n

1st Quarter – 7:02: Packers 0, Bears 3 <\/p>\n

8:22p ET<\/p>\n

Bad blood spills over pre-game <\/p>\n

7:26p ET<\/p>\n

Game Preview: Will Packers or Bears advance to the divisional round? <\/p>\n

6:35p ET<\/p>\n

Inactives announced <\/p>\n

Live Coverage for this began on 6:35p ET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Round 1 went to the Green Bay Packers. Round 2? A stunning Chicago Bears win on the road.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-405459","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\/405459","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=405459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}