The Green Bay Packers get their first win without Aaron Rodgers, snapping a three-game losing streak with a 23-16 victory on a rainy Sunday in Chicago. Brett Hundley passed for 212 yards and a touchdown while one of his hamstrings tightened up – and in the first half, the Packers lost running backs Aaron Jones to a knee injury and Ty Montgomery to a second rib injury this year. The eventual game winning score came on a 17 yard T-D pass from Hundley to Davante Adams with five and a half minutes left as Green Bay has now won eight of its last nine against Chicago. Adams had five catches for 90 yards while Packers rookie running back Jamaal Williams had 20 carries for 67 yards, and Montgomery ran for 54 yards and a score before he left. The Packer defense sacked Bears’ rookie quarterback Mitchell Trubisky five times – three by Nick Perry – but Trubisky still threw for a season high 297 yards and a T-D, and the Bears were held to 55 yards rushing while being outgained in total yards 342-323.
Minnesota maintains a two game lead in the N-F-C North after the Vikings won at Washington 38-30. Case Keenum threw four touchdown passes as the Vikes won their fifth straight to improve to 7-2. Detroit is still tied with Green Bay for second, both 5-4 after a 38-24 home win against Cleveland in which Matthew Stafford had a trio of second half T-D passes. The Bears are 5-4 after falling to the Packers – and Chicago could have had an extra touchdown had it not challenged Benny Cunningham’s 23 yard catch when he was tackled in the right corner at the Green Bay two. Bears’ coach John Fox thought it was a touchdown – and he was incensed after the replay review showed that Cunningham didn’t have control when he hit the pylon, and the ball went out of bounds which gave Green Bay the ball at the 20 with Chicago not scoring any points in that sequence.
