NFL Week 9 · chalk talk

Five giveaways, one kick. The Bears win anyway.

Caleb Williams threw four interceptions and Chicago still beat Tampa Bay on Cairo Santos' 38-yard field goal at the gun. Denver and San Francisco reached seven wins, Houston hung 44 on the Chargers, and the Giants finally won in Philadelphia. Buffalo visits Minnesota tonight.

Monday, November 9, 2026 · results through Sunday Night Football

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The two games that moved the board

Chicago survived its own mistakes to move to 7⁠–⁠2. Green Bay put up the week's biggest number.

Sunday night · Soldier Field
CHI 27 · TB 24

Williams threw first-quarter touchdowns to Rome Odunze (9 yards) and Luther Burden III (56), and Jaylon Johnson's 67-yard interception return made it 24⁠–⁠13 in the third. Tampa Bay came back with two Bucky Irving touchdown runs, and Baker Mayfield scrambled in for the two-point try that tied it at 24 with 2:51 left.

  • The last drive: the Bucs never got the ball back. Williams found Colton Loveland for 38 yards to the Tampa Bay 16, Chicago drained the clock, and Santos hit from 38 as time expired.
  • Williams: 22 of 37, 279 yards, 2 TDs, 4 INTs, the most he has thrown in a game in college or the NFL. Zyon McCollum had two of them. Tampa Bay scored only 10 points off five takeaways.
  • Burden: 7 catches, 97 yards. Irving: 97 rushing yards and two scores. Bears 7⁠–⁠2 heading into a bye; Bucs 3⁠–⁠6.
Late window · Foxborough
GB 45 · NE 27

Jordan Love went 23 of 29 for 372 yards and three touchdowns, and ran one in from 13 yards. He now leads the NFL with 2,246 passing yards. The Green Bay defense forced four turnovers, three of them interceptions of Drake Maye.

  • It was Maye's second three-interception game of the season. The Patriots were already without A.J. Brown, and Rhamondre Stevenson and Will Campbell left with knee injuries.
  • The Packers have 10 sacks across Weeks 8 and 9. Josh Jacobs fractured a finger; his Week 10 status is unknown.
  • Packers 6⁠–⁠3, Patriots 5⁠–⁠4. Every NFC North team now has at least six wins.

The whole slate

Winners circled. Times Central. Byes: Steelers, Titans. Last Monday's leftover: Chicago won 34⁠–⁠17 at Seattle, with D'Andre Swift scoring three touchdowns.

Numbers worth chalking up

5 TD

Stroud in Los Angeles

21 of 35 for 384 yards and five touchdowns as Houston scored 44 on the league's only winless team. The Texans are 3⁠–⁠5.

17

Denver's one-score wins in a row

And Nix's five fourth-quarter comebacks tie the most by any quarterback through his team's first nine games, per Elias.

4 INT

Williams, and still a win

A career high for picks. Chicago had five giveaways in all and the Bucs had a blocked punt at midfield, yet Tampa Bay turned them into 10 points.

3 sacks

Reese in Philadelphia

Plus 12 tackles, three tackles for loss and a forced fumble. The Giants had lost 13 straight in Philadelphia.

5

Walker's multi-TD games

Kenneth Walker III is the second player with five multi-touchdown games in a team's first eight, after Jim Brown.

7.5

David Bailey's sacks

The Jets rookie added two more against Kansas City, the most by a first-round pick through eight games since Julius Peppers in 2002.

The magnet board

Flip the switch and watch the magnets slide. Arrows show each team's change in place within its division. Gray magnets were on a bye; Buffalo and Minnesota play tonight.

Ordered by win percentage (a tie counts as half a win). Teams level on percentage keep a fixed board order; these are not official tiebreakers. "Before" records include last Monday's Chicago win at Seattle.

Still to play

Sources

  1. NFL.com: Week 9, what we learned from Sunday's games
  2. ESPN: Week 9 Sunday takeaways and questions
  3. ESPN: Week 9 highlights
  4. Bleacher Report: Week 9 takeaways for every team
  5. ProFootballTalk: Bears overcome five giveaways, beat Bucs 27-24
  6. Buccaneers.com: Bucs fall to Bears 27-24
  7. Chicago Sun-Times: Bears survive four interceptions
  8. ESPN: Jaguars 33, Ravens 10 recap
  9. ChicagoBears.com: Bears 34, Seahawks 17 recap
  10. Deadspin: Swift scores three as Bears down Seahawks
  11. SI: Carson Wentz to start for Minnesota
  12. ESPN: Week 9 schedule
  13. NFL.com: Week 9 schedule
  14. CBS Sports: Week 10 schedule
  15. Vikings.com: Bills at Vikings game information