About 10 yards into his route, Chicago Bears wide receiver DJ Moore thought to himself, “Something ain’t right.”
With 1:06 left and trailing by two near midfield, Moore’s route was a deep in-cut. All game long, his production had been limited to the perimeter, the way the Bears planned to counter the Minnesota Vikings’ pass rush. But in this moment, the most critical of the game, Moore and his teammates ran deep.
Rookie Tyler Scott’s deep corner route had Vikings defenders bailing, leaving a lot of room in the middle of the field.
“I was like, ‘Shoot, there’s nobody in the middle,’” Moore said after the Bears’ 12-10 win. “Well, this deep-in gonna be in the middle. We connected on it and, yeah, the rest is history.”
Quarterback Justin Fields, who had yet to make that clutch throw to put his team in position to win in the past two seasons, threw a strike to his best player.
