The Bears don't win shootouts, but somehow they did against the Bengals behind the heroics of the two rookies who got game balls.

Colston Loveland’s 58-yard winner gave Chicago a 47-42 shocker, a rookie tight end feat the Bears had not seen since Mike Ditka.

The Chicago Bears responded quickly to an opening touchdown from the Cincinnati Bengals, and Caleb Williams made a bit of history doing it.

1999: Chicago Bears Hall of Famer Walter Payton died of bile duct cancer and liver failure at age 45. “The last 12 months have been extremely tough on me and my family. … Our greatest thanks goes out to the people of Chicago. You adopted my dad and made him yours. He loved you all,” his son Jarrett Payton said.

Chicago beat the Bengals, 47-42. Cincinnati’s final Hail Mary fell short, and the Bears had earned an unbelievable wins amid a collapse that felt way too believable for Chicagoans with a serious amount of scar tissue built up since 1985.

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1971: Lions wide receiver Chuck Hughes, 28, collapsed during the fourth quarter of a game at Tiger Stadium in Detroit against the Chicago Bears and was pronounced dead 40 minutes later. Hughes remains the only NFL player ever to die on the playing field.