Many NFL fans didn’t know what to expect heading into the Commanders-Bears matchup on Thursday Night Football. But the matchup did manage to deliver on something NFL fans hadn’t seen in nearly two whole weeks.
A touchdown.
After what felt like years of TD-less football on Thursday nights, Bears quarterback Justin Fields finally put an end to viewers’ collective misery with a beautiful 40-yard pass to receiver Dante Pettis in the third quarter.
Ironically, Fields’s bomb not only marked the first trip to the end zone on TNF since Week 4, but it also gave Chicago a 7–3 lead after Washington kicker Joey Slye extended the dubious streak with a 38-yard field goal in the second quater.