{"id":1018656,"date":"2026-10-04T20:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1018656\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:21:15","slug":"kyle-monangai-scores-2-tds-as-the-chicago-bears-beat-the-new-york-jets-23-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1018656\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Monangai scores 2 TDs as the Chicago Bears beat the New York Jets 23-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Monangai rushed for 146 yards and two touchdowns, and the Chicago Bears stuffed the New York Jets for a 23-12 victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Bush, Austin Booker and Dayo Odeyingbo each had a sack as Chicago limited New York to seven first downs and 157 yards overall. The Bears have allowed a total of 28 points in three games since their wild <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bears-panthers-score-d19e8db235dc34f4fd74069b55cfe748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">59-37 victory<\/a> at Carolina in their season opener.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Bagent passed for 268 yards for Chicago (3-1) and Cairo Santos kicked three field goals. Rome Odunze had six receptions for 94 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Minkah Fitzpatrick stopped New York&#8217;s NFL-record interception drought at <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jets-interception-58504db6b4d61bda21c7ef6d2c25c27d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">20 games<\/a>, but the Jets (1-3) dropped their third consecutive game since their season-opening win at Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Geno Smith found Isaiah Williams for a 58-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter, trimming New York&#8217;s deficit to 23-12 with 9:16 left. It was Williams&#8217; first TD in his 27th career game.<\/p>\n<p>But Jason Sanders missed the ensuing extra point, and Chicago ran out the clock with an 18-play, 77-yard drive.<\/p>\n<p>Bagent was 25 for 34 while subbing for Caleb Williams, who missed his second straight game because of a right hamstring injury. Case Keenum started Monday night&#8217;s 27-7 win over Philadelphia, passing for 247 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Keenum was behind center for Chicago&#8217;s first play against New York and Bagent was split out wide. Keenum pitched the ball to D&#8217;Andre Swift for a 2-yard gain before Bagent took over at QB.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago turned the ball over on downs at the New York 1 on its first drive. But Monangai&#8217;s 1-yard TD on fourth-and-goal gave the Bears a 7-0 lead late in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears opened a 20-6 lead on Monangai&#8217;s 5-yard touchdown with 2:26 left in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick stepped in front of Colston Loveland and picked off a pass by Bagent in the second quarter for New York&#8217;s first interception since Ashtyn Davis had two against Miami in the 2024 season finale. But the Jets had three more interceptions taken off the board because of penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries<\/p>\n<p>Jets: Edge rusher Braiden McGregor departed with a chest injury. &#8230; Cornerback Jarvis Brownlee Jr. departed with a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Jets: Host the Cleveland Browns next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Bears: At the Green Bay Packers next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Monangai rushed for 146 yards and two touchdowns, and the Chicago Bears stuffed the New York Jets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1018657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[391,7,226,122,1917,255,2321,2097,6,10661],"class_list":["post-1018656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-jets","tag-chicago-bears","tag-football","tag-jets","tag-national-football-league","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-jets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkjets","tag-nfl","tag-soldier-field"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117384503830146367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}