a 34-12 win<\/a>\u00a0over Cincinnati last week. He wore a brace when he practiced Friday on a limited basis, but the Steelers (6-5) went with Mason Rudolph in his place and fell into a first-place tie with Baltimore in the AFC North.<\/p>\nThe NFC North-leading Bears (8-3) won for the eighth time in nine games. After rallying in the final two minutes the previous three weeks, they held onto a late leade this time.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh pulled within three when Rudolph found Pat Freiermuth for a 3-yard score with 6 1\/2 minutes remaining to cap a 17-play drive. The Steelers had the ball near midfield in the closing minute when Grady Jarrett tipped a fourth-down pass at the line, sealing the win for Chicago.<\/p>\n
Williams, who shaky at Minnesota last week despite setting a franchise single-season record with his fifth fourth-quarter comeback, found his rhythm in the second half after consistently overthrowing receivers in the first two quarters. He was 19 of 35 for 239 yards against a team that came in allowing a league-worst 261.7 yards passing per game. Williams was also strip-sacked by T.J. Watt in the end zone early in the second quarter, and the Steelers\u2019 Nick Herbig recovered the fumble for a touchdown.<\/p>\n
DJ Moore had five receptions for 64 yards and two touchdowns after catching just one pass over the previous two games. He caught a 5-yard TD in the first quarter, and his 25-yard score early in the third gave Chicago a 24-21 lead.<\/p>\n
Colston Loveland had a touchdown catch. Kyle Monangai ran for a score and Montez Sweat had two sacks.<\/p>\n
Rudolph, who returned to Pittsburgh for a second stint when he signed in March, settled down after throwing an interception on his first pass. He was 24 of 31 for 171 yards with a touchdown.<\/p>\n
Kenneth Gainwell, coming off one of the best days of his career, had 92 yards rushing, including a 55-yarder that led to a touchdown late in the first half. He caught seven passes for 81 yards and two touchdowns last week against Cincinnati and finished with 105 total yards.<\/p>\n
DK Metcalf and Jaylen Warren each ran for TDs for the Steelers.<\/p>\n
Injuries<\/p>\n
Steelers: CB Joey Porter Jr. hurt his leg in the first half and returned to the game before exiting in the third quarter with a hip injury. … Metcalf (ankle) hobbled to the sideline in the second and third quarters. … OT Broderick Jones suffered a stinger in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Bears: LB Ruben Hyppolite (shoulder) and CB Tyrique Stevenson (hip) exited the game. Both were hurt in the first half. … DL Domique Robinson was evaluated for a concussion in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caleb Williams threw for three touchdowns, and the Bears beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-28 in a matchup of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25389,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-42705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-caleb-williams","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}