MINNEAPOLIS — It could have been just idle words of encouragement that Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams offers to any random teammate he chats up before a game, but what he told kick returner Devin Duvernay turned out to be prescient.

“I told Duve, actually, right before the game, he was going to make a play for us this day. And he did just that.”

With the Bears down 17-16 with 50 seconds left in the game, Duvernay fielded Will Reichard’s 61-yard kickoff at his own 4-yard line, ran to the opposite side and up the right sideline for 56 yards to the Minnesota 40-yard line, where he was pushed out of bounds by linebacker Eric Wilson.

“Man, just a lot of green grass and (my) eyes lit up,” Duvernay said. “A moment to make a play.”

Four plays later, Cairo Santos booted a 48-yard fiel

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