The Chicago Bears open the season Sunday, welcoming the San Francisco 49ers to Soldier Field in a sport that pits a pair of second-year beginning quarterbacks towards each other.
But the Justin Fields-versus-Trey Lance battle gained’t be the one factor value monitoring this weekend. Here are a handful of eye-catching information and figures.
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Rookies on the Bears 53-man roster, proof of the roster overhaul basic supervisor Ryan Poles has been overseeing since January. Only 19 gamers on the roster have been with the group when Poles arrived. Seven joined the group simply this month. In addition, 42% of the 53-man roster consists of gamers of their first or second seasons.
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Projected Week 1 starters for the Bears who’re taking part in beneath their rookie contracts. That contains linebacker Roquan Smith and operating again David Montgomery, who’re coming into contract seasons and unsure what their future with the group holds past this season. It additionally contains security Jaquan Brisker, cornerback Kyler Gordon and left sort out Braxton Jones, three rookies who gained roles as Week 1 starters.
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Regular-season victories by Lovie Smith in his 9 seasons as Bears coach. Smith is the one Bears coach within the post-Mike Ditka period to have gained no less than 50 video games with the group. He can also be the one one to win a number of playoff video games.
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Regular-season victories mixed by Marc Trestman, John Fox and Matt Nagy during the last 9 seasons. Matt Eberflus changed Nagy in January and can coach his first sport Sunday.
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Length in yards of Deebo Samuel’s longest reception in 2021 for the 49ers. That catch got here on third-and-20 towards the Bears final October, a momentum-changing play within the second half that helped the 49ers rally from 9 factors down for a 33-22 victory. Samuel completed the season with 1,770 yards from scrimmage and 14 touchdowns and final month signed a three-year, $71.6 million extension.
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Robbie Gould’s field-goal share because the Bears reduce him simply earlier than the 2016 season. The Bears’ all-time main scorer made 85.4% of his kicks throughout 11 seasons in Chicago. He kicked for the New York Giants in 2017 and is coming into his sixth season with the 49ers. Gould has kicked towards the Bears thrice beforehand, making all 9 of his field-goal makes an attempt. That features a 5-for-5 effort in Week 13 of 2017, together with the game-winning 24-yard kick within the last seconds to raise the 49ers to a 15-14 victory.
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Sacks final season by 49ers defensive finish Nick Bosa, a profession excessive and second within the NFC behind Bears edge rusher Robert Quinn (18½). Bosa will match up Sunday towards Jones, a fifth-round select of Southern Utah, in what might be one of many afternoon’s most attention-grabbing matchups.
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Receiving yards by Darnell Mooney in his first two NFL seasons. In Bears historical past, solely two vast receivers have had extra yardage over their first two years — Harlon Hill with 1,913 yards in 1954-55 and Alshon Jeffery with 1,788 in 2012-13.
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Bears rating in complete offense final season with 307.4 yards per sport. That marked the seventeenth time in 20 seasons they completed exterior the highest 20. The Bears averaged 4.86 yards per play in 2021, rating twenty seventh in that class.
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Touchdown passes thrown by Bears quarterback Erik Kramer in 1995, setting a single-season franchise report that also stands. Since Kramer’s massive 12 months, just one Bears quarterback has topped 25 landing passes in a season. Jay Cutler had 27 in 2009 and 28 in 2014.
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NFL quarterbacks who’ve thrown no less than 30 landing passes in a season during the last 10 seasons, together with 17 who’ve performed it greater than as soon as. Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady and Drew Brees have thrown no less than 30 TD passes six instances within the final 10 seasons.
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Touchdown passes by Fields in his rookie 12 months. Fields made 10 begins and performed in 12 video games final season, however he had just one sport by which he threw a number of TD passes (a 45-30 loss to the Green Bay Packers in Week 14).
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