{"id":672413,"date":"2026-01-12T21:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/672413\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:47:17","slug":"nfl-announces-referee-for-rams-bears-game-in-divisional-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/672413\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL announces referee for Rams-Bears game in divisional round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL announced on Monday the referee assignments for <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/rams-face-bears-divisional-round-004917596.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:each of the four divisional round;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">each of the four divisional round<\/a> matchups next weekend. At Soldier Field, it\u2019ll be Shawn Hochuli and his crew officiating the game for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Rams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Cheffers, John Hussey and Shawn Smith are the other referees for the divisional round.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This is the ninth time Hochuli has been the referee for a Rams game since he took on that position in 2018. The Rams are 5-3 in their eight games with Hochuli as the ref. The most recent game came in 2024 when they beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/las-vegas-raiders\/341\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Raiders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Raiders<\/a>, 20-15.<\/p>\n<p>According to Football Zebras, this is Hochuli\u2019s 10th postseason game and his ninth in the divisional round. He\u2019s also been an official for a conference championship game but never the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL will <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/nfl-divisional-round-schedule-rams-041533665.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:announce the time of each divisional round;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announce the time of each divisional round<\/a> game on Monday night, but we know the Rams and Bears will be one of the two games on Sunday, kicking off at either 3 or 6:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/theramswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/rams\/2026\/01\/12\/nfl-playoffs-rams-bears-referee-assignment-divisional\/88148092007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL playoffs: Referee for Rams-Bears announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NFL playoffs: Referee for Rams-Bears announced<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL announced on Monday the referee assignments for each of the four divisional round matchups next weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[391,422,7,36686,36696,58,6,11243,525,97906,20405,62017],"class_list":["post-672413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-chicago-bears","tag-divisional-round","tag-football","tag-football-zebras","tag-john-hussey","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-nfl","tag-postseason-game","tag-raiders","tag-referee-assignments","tag-shawn-hochuli","tag-shawn-smith"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115884329733858906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672413","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=672413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}