Quarterback Justin Fields has been on a tear over the past month, not solely boosting the manufacturing of his offense however placing his fingerprints — or perhaps extra precisely his footprints — everywhere in the workforce and league report books. The Chicago Bears are 3-7 and on their option to Atlanta for Sunday’s recreation towards the Falcons. But Fields’ latest breakthrough has created plain power in Chicago whereas turning heads throughout the NFL.
Here is a Fields-centric providing of 12 record-related numbers.
67
Length of Fields’ fourth-quarter landing run towards the Detroit Lions on Sunday, the longest ever by a Bears quarterback. Fields broke the earlier mark of 61 yards — which he seven days earlier on an electrical scoring run towards the Miami Dolphins. Before that, Vince Evans held the workforce report, a 58-yarder towards the Houston Oilers in November 1980.
93
NFL report for longest run by a quarterback, a 2013 sprint by the Oakland Raiders’ Terrelle Pryor towards the Pittsburgh Steelers. At this level it’s honest to ask whether or not it’s solely a matter of time earlier than Fields cuts unfastened and tops Pryor’s feat. In addition to Pryor, 4 different quarterbacks have had a run of at the least 80 yards: Colin Kaepernick (90 in 2014), Marcus Mariota (87 in 2015), Kordell Stewart (80 in 1996) and Daniel Jones (80 in 2020).
178
Rushing yards by Fields within the Bears’ Nov. 6 loss to the Dolphins at Soldier Field, setting a workforce and league single-game report for a quarterback. The Bears’ earlier report was 127, set by Bobby Douglass towards the Raiders in 1972. The NFL mark was Michael Vick’s 173 in a 30-24 Atlanta Falcons extra time win towards the Minnesota Vikings on Dec. 1, 2002.
555
Rushing yards by Fields over the past 5 video games, probably the most by a quarterback over a five-game span within the Super Bowl period. During that span, Fields has had 5 runs of at the least 20 yards.
1,206
Rushing yards by the Baltimore Ravens’ Lamar Jackson throughout his MVP marketing campaign in 2019, a single-season NFL report for quarterbacks. Jackson had 179 speeding makes an attempt, averaged 6.9 yards per carry and scored seven speeding touchdowns.
749
Rushing yards by Fields via 10 video games. He is averaging 7.2 yards per rush and at his present tempo is on observe for 177 speeding makes an attempt, 1,273 yards and 10 speeding touchdowns. The yardage whole would break the workforce’s single-season quarterback report, set by Douglass with 968 in 1972. Douglass’ achievement stood because the NFL report till Vick ran for 1,039 with the Falcons in 2006.
6
Jackson’s NFL rank in speeding yardage in 2019, which put him behind Derrick Henry, Nick Chubb, Christian McCaffrey, Ezekiel Elliott and Chris Carson. Fields ranks sixth within the league in speeding behind Saquon Barkley, Henry, Chubb, Josh Jacobs and Dameon Pierce.
2,974
Rushing yards by the 1984 Bears, the workforce’s single-season report. That workforce’s main rusher was Walter Payton, who ran for 1,684 yards and 11 touchdowns for a workforce that gained 10 video games and went on to the NFC championship recreation.
3,296
Rushing yards by the 2019 Ravens, one of the best single-season speeding output through the Super Bowl period. In addition to Jackson’s historic output, working again Mark Ingram topped 1,000 yards with 1,018 plus 10 speeding touchdowns.
2,017
Bears speeding yards via 10 video games, which places them on observe to amass 3,429 speeding yards. That would set a workforce single-season report and break the NFL mark. The 2019 Ravens, for what it’s value, averaged 206 speeding yards in 16 video games. The Bears are averaging 201.7 speeding yards per recreation.
5
Consecutive video games wherein the Bears have rushed for greater than 200 yards, the primary workforce for the reason that 1976 Steelers to take action. According to Pro Football Reference, solely 10 groups have rushed for 200 yards in at the least 5 video games. The league report for consecutive 200-yard speeding outings is seven, set by the 1947 New York Yankees and later matched by the 1948 San Francisco 49ers and 1972 Steelers.
4
Consecutive video games wherein Fields has recorded each a speeding and passing landing, making him simply the fifth participant in league historical past to perform that feat. The others had been Jim Hart for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1986; Vick for the Eagles in 2010; Ryan Tannehill for the Titans in 2020 and 2021; and Kyle Murray for the Cardinals in 2020. Murray is the one participant to have a speeding TD and passing rating in 5 consecutive video games. No participant has made it to 6.
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