CHICAGO — The Detroit Lions had no answer for Justin Fields and the Chicago Bears’ NFL-best rushing attack — until they needed one most.
Fields ran for 147 yards and two touchdowns, but Jared Goff led a go-ahead 91-yard touchdown drive with 2:21 to play and the Lions sacked Fields twice on the ensuing possession to defeat the Bears, 31-30, for their second straight win.
The victory is the Lions’ first road win under Dan Campbell and gives the Lions (3-6) back-to-back victories for the first time since early in the 2020 season.
Jamaal Williams scored the winning touchdown on 1-yard run with 2:21 to play, two plays after Goff completed a 44-yard pass to Tom Kennedy on third-and-9.
Amon-Ra St. Brown took a shovel pass to the 1-yard line on the next play, and Williams barreled into the end zone to give the Lions their first lead of the second half.
The Bears, who missed an extra point after Fields scored on a 67-yard run with 9:11 left in the fourth quarter, started their final possession at their own 20-yard line and picked up one first down before the Lions defense came alive.
Fields threw incomplete on first-and-10, when Jeff Okudah collided with Cole Kmet and officials did not throw a flag. Aidan Hutchinson sacked Fields on second down, and after a short pass on third down, Julian Okwara sacked Fields for a 10-yard loss.
Fields escaped Okwara’s first tackle attempt, but Alex Anzalone pinned the elusive Fields in the pocket and Okwara wrapped him up from behind.
It’s the Lions’ first road win since Dec. 6, 2020, featuring another fourth-quarter rally in Chicago for a 34-30 win in the first game under interim coach Darrell Bevell.
Fields, who the Lions passed on with the seventh pick of the 2021 draft, topped 140 yards rushing for the second straight week, and has 554 yards rushing in Chicago’s past five games, an NFL record for most rushing yards by a quarterback in five games in the Super Bowl era.
The Bears (3-7) ran for 128 yards in the first half, 69 by Fields on eight rushes, and 258 yards in the game.
Fields scored on a 1-yard run just before halftime to tie the game at 10, and gave the Bears a 24-10 lead in the third quarter with two touchdown passes to Kmet.
The Lions answered with a 9-yard touchdown run by D’Andre Swift on a four-play drive kept alive by three Bears penalties, and Jeff Okudah returned an errant Fields pass 20 yards for a touchdown to tie the game.
Goff finished 19 of 26 passing for 236 yards with one touchdown and had one interception negated by penalty.
The Lions are now in second place in the putrid NFC North, and visit the surging New York Giants (7-2) next Sunday at 1 p.m.
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