{"id":625599,"date":"2025-12-24T18:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/625599\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:48:20","slug":"bears-k-cairo-santos-named-nfc-special-teams-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/625599\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears K Cairo Santos named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bears<\/a> kicker Cairo Santos was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week following his performance in a 22-16 overtime win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/green-bay-packers\/335\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Green Bay Packers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Green Bay Packers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In windy conditions in prime time at Soldier Field, Santos connected on all three of his field goal attempts &#8212; from 46, 51 and 43 yards &#8212; where he was the team&#8217;s offense until the final minute of the fourth quarter. He also connected on his lone extra point attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Santos pulled the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bears<\/a> to within seven points with his 43-yard field goal with 1:59 remaining, and he followed that up with an onside kick that was recovered by Bears cornerback Josh Blackwell. That led to the game-tying touchdown from Caleb Williams to Jahdae Walker and later the game-winning score in overtime from Williams to DJ Moore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He did a phenomenal job,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobears.com\/news\/cairo-santos-tabbed-nfc-special-teams-player-of-the-week-2025-week-16-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Johnson said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Johnson said<\/a>. &#8220;That&#8217;s a big asset for us. He&#8217;s been here. He understands that wind. He does a great job in practice. He gets a lot of time on task with it. I thought he handled it really well. Huge reason why he got a game ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Santos is the fifth Bears player to earn &#8220;player of the week&#8221; honors this season. Past winners include: quarterback Caleb Williams (Week 3), cornerback Josh Blackwell (Week 4), tight end Colston Loveland (Week 9) and linebacker D&#8217;Marco Jackson (Week 15). Cornerback Nahshon Wright also earned NFC Defensive Player of the Month for his November outings.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bears Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bears\/2025\/12\/24\/bears-cairo-santos-nfc-special-teams-player-of-week-16\/87908958007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bears K Cairo Santos named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bears K Cairo Santos named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears kicker Cairo Santos was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week following his performance in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,1841,1036,692,391,2493,590,1475,21173,7,345,3004,15097,10378,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-625599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-cairo-santos","10":"tag-caleb-williams","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-bears","13":"tag-chicagobears","14":"tag-colston-loveland","15":"tag-dj-moore","16":"tag-field-goal-attempts","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-green-bay-packers","19":"tag-jahdae-walker","20":"tag-josh-blackwell","21":"tag-nahshon-wright","22":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115776042241792734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625599","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=625599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}