The Packers placed Randall Cobb on Injured Reserve earlier this week.  They activated DeVondre Campbell and Jonathan Garvin from the Covid Reserve List but placed Jordan Love on the Covid List.  The Packers elevated Kurt Benkert from the Practice Squad as a Covid Replacement Player. David Bakhtiari (knee) was inactive as he works his way back from injury.  Vernon Scott, Jack Heflin and Isiaih McDuffie were inactive despite being healthy.  Jake Hanson was active but did not play.  

The Packers again started a game with three pass attempts, one of which resulted in a sack by Robert Quinn for minus 11 yards.  The first possession was a 3 and out.  The second possession also featured another sack by Quinn, but the Packers overcame it with a 32-yard completion to Lazard.  A fumble by Rodgers that was recovered by Dillon led to a 3rd and 10 which was not converted.  That led to another punt.  The Packers' running backs rushed the ball 6 times for 35 yards (5.83-yard average) in the first half. 

However, the line overall gave Rodgers enough time for the game, and he took advantage.  Rodgers had a 133.6 passer rating in the first half and finished the game with a 141.1 rating for the game.  Rodgers was sacked 3 times, but PFF assigned just 4 pressures to the offensive line and 1 of the sacks.  Nijman was assigned 2 pressures and one sack.  Nijman again seemed to get better as the game progressed.  Right tackle Billy Turner had another player roll into the back of his leg while Turner was engaged blocking a defender and left the game.  Dennis Kelly came in to play 65% of the snaps and held up well.  He did have one holding penalty, but this is why the Packers signed him.

The Packers got 95 yards from Marcedes Lewis and Deguara on 7 receptions and 7 targets.  Adams again was the workhorse with 121 yards on 10 receptions and 13 targets and 2 touchdowns, with Allen Lazard having a nice day with 75 yards on 6 receptions and 7 targets.  Aaron Jones caught 3 passes on 3 targets for 30 yards and a touchdown to go with his 35 rushing yards.  Dillon was able to gain good yardage during long, methodical, scoring drives in the second half to close out the game.    

The Packers gave up 53 yards on 11 rushes by running backs in the first half, a 4.82 average.  Justin Fields added 44 more yards on 6 attempts to push the rushing total to 97 yards on 17 rushes, a 5.7-yard average.  The Bears added 40 yards on 6 rushes in the second half, with just 3 rushing attempts for 11 yards by running backs as the Bears fell behind.  Fields had the other 30 yards, but some of that came in garbage time.

The Packers pressured Fields on 22 of his 43 pass attempts, per Pro Football Focus.  Kenny Clark and Preston Smith each had 6 pressures, Rashan Gary added 5, and Dean Lowry and Kingsley Keke each had 4 pressures.  Preston Smith and Clark each had 3 quarterback hits, Keke had 2 and Lowry had 1.  Preston Smith had 2 sacks.  DeVondre Campbell had a whopping 14 tackles in the first half, and finished the game with 16 (9 solo).

Rasul Douglas redeemed himself from a somewhat iffy Pass Interference penalty with 2 passes defensed, including an interception he returned for a touchdown at a time when the Packers needed a lift.  Stokes, Amos, Barnes, Black, Keke and Sullivan also each had one pass defensed, with Sullivan's being an interception to seal the game.   

Fields had a passer rating of 101.6 in the first half, which was due mostly to two big plays, a 46-yard quick hitter thrown short over the middle to Jakeem Grant and a 54-yard completion to Damiere Byrd also thrown short over the middle.  Fields finished the game with a 70.8 passer rating. Fields completed 7 passes on 16 attempts for 51 yards and an interception when under pressure.

The Bears scored 24 points in the second quarter, aided by 253 yards of field position ceded to them by the Packers' Special Teams just in the first half.  The Packers allowed a 34 yard punt return to start the Bears' second possession.  Later, they allowed a 40-yard kickoff return to the Chicago 41 yard line.  The Bears started at their own 40 when Crosby's kickoff went out of bounds.  The Packers allowed a 97-yard punt return for a touchdown, and later a 42-yard kickoff return.  Yes, one could argue that kickoffs usually result in starting somewhere between the 20 and 25 yard lines and therefore deduct 60 to 75 yards from that 253-yard statistic I noted.  There were more special teams miscues in the second half.

WR: 2.62

TE: 1.37

RB: 1.02

DL: 2.29

ILB: 1.44

OLB: 2.0

DB: 5.27