Rookie RB Howard delivers for Bears in 17-14 win over Lions

He has big-play potential and his 6-foot-3, 218-pound frame makes him a hard cover. Zac Miller led in receiving with 78 yards and two touchdowns while Alshon Jeffery had 70 yards in five receptions. He rushed for 59 yards in the first half and added 52 yards in the second half as part of a methodical attack on offense.

Fantasy Impact Jones returned to practice in full on Friday, and he reportedly looked back to normal at that time. Freeman is strong against the run, has great instincts and is the X-factor on defense.

DeAndre Levy will miss third straight game with a quadriceps injury, and Ziggy Ansah is out for the second straight week with a high ankle sprain.

“I always thought we were going to win, but I wasn’t expecting 100 yards”, Howard said. He missed a block, leading Theo Riddick to get hit in the backfield, and walked away in disgust. Coverage was acceptable, and the pass rush actually existed against the Lions which forced Stafford into two turnovers.

The Lions defense has allowed 102 points in the first four weeks of the season.

First off, Jim Caldwell is not the man who’s going to take this team to competitiveness, let alone playoff contention.

No play was more important than the one by Timu, who dropped Zach Zenner for a two-yard loss on third-and-goal from the 1.

In fact, he was ranked as the Lions best defensive player in their season opening victory over the Indianapolis Colts by Pro Football Focus. Given that the Bears are down to their backups at key positions like quarterback and running back, I give the nod to Detroit. Slowly, the same issue Detroit had being over-reliant on Johnson is morphing into a need for players other than Jones to become more involved in the passing game.

Meanwhile, the Dolphins were unable to gain any traction in offense, and after three quarters the Miami offense had just 152 total yards, compared to Green’s 166 to his name alone. RB Jeremy Langford (ankle) was inactive after getting hurt last week at Dallas. Stafford owns a 7-5 record and a 87.2 passer rating against the Bears in his career.

The Detroit Lions were supposed to get back to.500 against a bad, banged-up Chicago Bears on Sunday at Soldier Field. They will have been analyzing last week’s game and will definitely want to see more of what went on in the second half against the Packers. Not so quietly, the Bears QBs have bombed. Chicago has lost all three of its games and faces quarterback questions on top of it between Jay Cutler and Brian Hoyer.

In case you were under the impression that 2016 had reached its quota of acts involving juvenile, pretty-racist, attention-seeking behavior, a patron of Sunday’s contest between the Lions and Bears begs you to think again.

You don’t have to root for the Bears to lose every game.