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Courtney CroninESPN Staff Writer
- Covered the 49ers, Raiders and Warriors for the San Jose Mercury News. She joined ESPN successful 2017.
ATLANTA - Chicago Bears backmost Justin Fields extended his streak to 7 consecutive games with a touchdown walk erstwhile helium recovered Darnell Mooney with a 16-yarder connected Sunday.
On Chicago's opening thrust against the Atlanta Falcons, Fields marched the Bears into the reddish portion successful 5 plays. Facing third-and-8 astatine the 16-yard line, Fields threw a dart to a wide unfastened Mooney. Nine of Mooney's 10 vocation touchdowns person travel wrong the 20-yard line.
Mooney's touchdown was acceptable up by Velus Jones Jr.'s 55-yard kickoff instrumentality that enactment the Bears astatine the Atlanta 44-yard enactment to commencement the drive.
Fields' streak is the longest by a Bears backmost since Mitch Trubisky went 10 consecutive successful 2018. Fields' longest streak anterior to this was 3 games.
Fields aboriginal added a four-yard rushing touchdown, tying the Arizona Cardinals' Kyler Murray for the astir consecutive games with a passing and rushing TD successful the Super Bowl epoch with five.
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