The Bears’ Cairo Santos kicked a 47-yard field goal on the final snap of the half to cut the Steelers’ halftime lead to 21-17.<\/p>\n
The Bears took the lead on their first possession of the second half. A holding call on Steelers punt-gunner Skowronek negated a 54-yard net punt. Instead of the Bears taking over at their own 10, a re-punt gave them the ball at their 40. Williams’ passes of 17, 14, and 14 yards set up a third-and-6, 25-yard touchdown pass to Moore. It gave the Bears a 24-21 lead with 8:29 left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
The Bears scored again early in the fourth quarter. A strip sack of Rudolph, by Sweat, was recovered by Sweat at the Chicago 46. The Bears moved 54 yards in 9 plays for a 2-yard Kyle Monangai touchdown run that gave them a 31-21 lead with 14:14 left.<\/p>\n
The Steelers followed by driving 73 yards in 17 plays for a touchdown, a 3-yard Rudolph play-action pass to Pat Freiermuth on third down. The score cut the Bears’ lead to 31-28 with 6:27 left. The longest play of the drive was a 19-yard reception by Calvin Austin on a third-and-6.<\/p>\n
The Steelers got the ball back twice. They punted the first time, and after stopping the Bears in 24 seconds, got the ball back with 1:29 remaining. A 14-yard pass to Freiermuth opened the possession, but the Steelers were stopped just across midfield on the batted pass by strong safety Jaquan Brisker at the line of scrimmage.<\/p>\n
The Bears kneeled down on the next snap to improve to 8-3 on the season.<\/p>\n
The Steelers had more first downs (22-19), better third-down conversion percentage (57-54), more rushing yards (186-99), more sacks (2-1), fewer penalties and yardage (6\/41-7\/83), the same number of turnovers (2-2), and more time of possession (33:09-26:51), but couldn’t secure the win.<\/p>\n
Individually, Gainwell led all rushers with 92 yards on 10 carries. Rudolph \u2013 starting in place of injured quarterback Aaron Rodgers \u2013 completed 24 of 31 passes for 171 yards with 1-1 TD-INT for a passer rating of 86.9.<\/p>\n
Tomlin said after the game he expects Rodgers to start next week at home against the Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bears’ Cairo Santos kicked a 47-yard field goal on the final snap of the half to cut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[564,563,73,75,74,24487,565,6029],"class_list":["post-42894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-featured","tag-non-sponsored","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-at-chicago-bears-2025-reg-12","tag-sights-and-sounds","tag-xtra-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42894","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=42894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}