Modern football is all about big plays and as a companion piece to the STEP Differential, I’m tracking the Bears big plays all year in this Infogram:

Last year’s tracker is on the second page. Remember that you can click into the tabs on the lower left to see the tally by player and you can hover over any of the shapes on the right hand side of the visual to see a description of each play. Like last year, I’ll color code the plays on the right with the team color of the opponent. New this year I’ve added a timestamp this year to each play.

Halfway through the year and I decided to take a quick peek at what this team did last year and the difference is monstrous. First of all, the Bears currently have 36 explosive plays on offense through 8 games. They had 47 all of last year. They’ve als

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