Quarterback Justin Fields has been on a tear during the last month, not solely boosting the manufacturing of his offense however placing his fingerprints — or perhaps extra precisely his footprints — all around the staff and league document books. The Chicago Bears are 3-7 and on their approach to Atlanta for Sunday’s recreation in opposition to the Falcons. But Fields’ current 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 in opposition to 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 in opposition to the Miami Dolphins. Before that, Vince Evans held the staff document, a 58-yarder in opposition to the Houston Oilers in November 1980.
93
NFL document for longest run by a quarterback, a 2013 sprint by the Oakland Raiders’ Terrelle Pryor in opposition to 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 staff and league single-game document for a quarterback. The Bears’ earlier document was 127, set by Bobby Douglass in opposition to the Raiders in 1972. The NFL mark was Michael Vick’s 173 in a 30-24 Atlanta Falcons extra time win in opposition to the Minnesota Vikings on Dec. 1, 2002.
555
Rushing yards by Fields during the last 5 video games, essentially 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 document 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 by way of 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 staff’s single-season quarterback document, set by Douglass with 968 in 1972. Douglass’ achievement stood because the NFL document 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 staff’s single-season document. That staff’s main rusher was Walter Payton, who ran for 1,684 yards and 11 touchdowns for a staff that received 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 in the course of 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 by way of 10 video games, which places them on observe to amass 3,429 speeding yards. That would set a staff single-season document 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 by which the Bears have rushed for greater than 200 yards, the primary staff because the 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 document 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 by which 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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