What We Saw: Week 10

We Watched Every NFL Week 10 Game So You Don't Have To – Here's What We Saw!

Brett Ford
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New York Giants @ Chicago Bears

Final Score: Bears 24, Giants 20

Writer: Brett Ford (@FadeThatMan)

 

In what was the first game of the season truly affected by winter weather, the Chicago Bears hosted the New York Giants on Sunday afternoon. With the Bears in the thick of the NFC North title race and the Giants hoping to develop its young core, the matchup was one of teams with different sets of goals. However, it was the Giants that held a fourth-quarter lead, moving ahead 20-10 late in the game. After Jaxson Dart left the game with an injury, the Bears capitalized on a crippled Giants offense and attacked aggressively with a pair of back-to-back touchdown drives to complete a huge comeback and earn a 24-20 win.

For Bears fans, it was a comeback of epic proportion — a second week in a row where this young team coming into its own has flipped the script on years past and become the team that does the things it takes to win the game in the fourth quarter. Watching the Bears this season has been a completely different experience from previous seasons, knowing that regardless of the scoreboard, the team isn’t out of it and has the heart, the grit and the fortuity to fight back even when the odds are stacked against them.

For Giants fans, it was the same news on a different day.

Let’s dig in.

 

Three Up

  • Rome Odunze — Targeted early and often, he found the end zone after getting blanked last week.
  • Caleb Williams — Clutch. Williams delivered in the biggest moments for the Bears and showed his ceiling.
  • Theo Johnson — A volume pass catcher, as long as Dart gets back quickly.

Three Down

  • DJ Moore — It’s like the Bears can’t get everybody going in the same game, Moore drew this week’s short straw … or no straw.
  • Cole Kmet — On the field and healthy, but took a backseat as a pass catcher to Loveland.
  • Kyle Monangai — He found the paint, but didn’t take over the backfield like some managers hoped.

 

New York Giants

 

Quarterback

 

Jaxson Dart: 19/29, 242 Yards, Fumble (LOST) | 6 Carries, 66 Yards, 2 TDs

Jaxson Dart was outstanding for three quarters, leading an injury-hampered Giants offense to four scoring drives, including three touchdowns. He became the first quarterback in NFL history with a rushing touchdown in five straight games, finding the paint twice with his legs. It’s a shame he had to leave the game with concussion symptoms, but it may potentially be the best-case scenario for the Giants. For New York, you’ve gotten what you wanted out of this season already — you’ve found your future at quarterback and have the cornerstone of the franchise in place for years to come. Now you have the ability to tank for a high draft pick to surround Dart with talent while he and the rest of the injured superstars heal up the rest of the year. At 2-8, the season is basically over. Might as well place Dart on IR, turn to Russell Wilson and see what other gems you can unearth as you prepare to retool and come back as a true competitor in 2026.

 

Russell Wilson: 3/7, 45 Yards | 2 Carries, 12 Yards

Mr. Unlimited was about as limiting as he could have been for what had previously been a high-octane offense with Dart under center. On the three drives that Russell Wilson played the entire time, the Giants went three-and-out, three-and-out and then turned the ball over on downs as Wilson went 1-for-5 for zero yards on their final offensive possession.

 

Running Back

 

Tyrone Tracy Jr.: 14 Carries, 71 Yards | 2 Targets, 1 Reception

The good news is that Tyrone Tracy Jr. has pulled away from Devin Singletary, proving to be the Giants’ top running back in Week 10 with double the snaps of his backfield counterpart. The bad news is that it really didn’t matter for fantasy managers. Tracy carried 14 times and averaged 5.1 yards per carry in spite of terrible blocking in front of him for most of the game. The biggest problem was that Dart ended up snaking the rushing touchdowns on the Giants’ red-zone trips, rendering Tracy pretty much useless for fantasy purposes.

 

Devin Singletary: 8 Carries, 20 Yards | 3 Targets, 3 Receptions, 53 Yards

Devin Singletary took four fewer touches on half the snaps of Tracy, but still managed to gain 73 yards (53 receiving yards) of total offense while Tracy finished with 71 yards. It will be curious to see if the Giants decide to expand the veteran’s role or not moving forward. The largest chunk of Singletary’s yardage came on a checkdown from Wilson on third-and-1. Singletary caught the ball in the flat, stiff-armed a defender and raced up the sideline for a huge gain. He may benefit from Wilson taking snaps if Dart misses time, just because he’ll be a safety blanket for the veteran.

 

Wide Receiver/Tight End

 

Wan’Dale Robinson: 10 Targets, 6 Receptions, 62 Yards

Wan’Dale Robinson has ascended to the Giants’ top wide receiver and was on the field for all but one offensive snap in this one. He ran 16 more routes and earned more than double the targets of the next-highest wide receiver, pulling in six catches in short to intermediate areas of the field.

 

Darius Slayton: 4 Targets, 4 Receptions, 89 Yards

Darius Slayton made one of the best catches of the season at the end of the first quarter, one of four receptions in the intermediate to deep areas of the defense. Without Dart under center to deliver him the ball and take shots, Slayton could fall off the map completely. Wilson throws a great deep ball, but has shown a hesitancy to take risks. That’ll hurt Slayton’s prospects moving forward if Dart misses time.

 

Theo Johnson: 8 Targets, 7 Receptions, 75 Yards

Theo Johnson was Dart’s favorite target in the middle of the field, pulling in a team-high seven receptions on eight targets. His best catch of the game came on an extended play as Dart rolled to his right, Johnson traveled with him and pulled in a catch on the sideline, completing an amazing toe-drag to complete the 25-yard reception.

 

Daniel Bellinger: 2 Targets, 1 Reception, 8 Yards

Gunnar Olszewski: 2 Targets

 

Chicago Bears

 

Quarterback

 

Caleb Williams: 20/36, 220 Yards, TD | 8 Carries, 63 Yards, TD 

It isn’t always pretty, but gosh darn it, it works! Caleb Williams was an outstanding playmaker, play extender and PlayStation cheat code as he led the Bears’ comeback in the fourth quarter. Though the box score may not reflect his full impact — his 55% completion percentage and only 220 yards passing leave a little to be desired — he was an absolute dynamo as Chicago leaned on him to make the offense move. He looked (dare I say it) Mahomes-ian as he escaped multiple sacks, extended plays and delivered dots on several difficult throws. Some of them were caught. Some of them were not. If nothing else, this game made me a believer in the ceiling of Williams and his talent. It’s there. Ben Johnson just need to bring it out consistently.

 

Running Back

 

Kyle Monangai: 7 Carries, 28 Yards, TD | 1 Target

After last week’s coming out party with D’Andre Swift sidelined, Kyle Monangai did not see nearly the same role in this one. He and Swift alternated drives early on — Monangai’s touchdown came on his drive, the Bears’ second possession of the day — before the Bears turned things over to Swift, who clearly had the hotter hand, in the second half. Perhaps if Monangai had performed a little better in the first half, he would have earned more of an opportunity late, but it very well could have been the game-script that dictated the Bears’ running back usage.

 

D’Andre Swift: 13 Carries, 80 Yards | 8 Targets, 5 Receptions, 18 Yards

As the Bears trailed for most of the second half, D’Andre Swift earned more of the second-half snaps in this game, as his game lends itself more to the pass-catching role. The Bears’ rushing touchdown came on Monangai’s drive, but Swift earned the overall in snaps 42-26 and routes run. Swift ran 23 routes and was targeted seven times, while Monangai ran just 16 routes with only one target. In games that the Bears take an early lead or pull away, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Monangai earn a larger role. But in any neutral, close games or passing situations, it looks like Swift holds the edge.

 

Wide Receiver/Tight End

 

Rome Odunze: 10 Targets, 6 Receptions, 86 Yards, TD

I think Johnson may have been extremely aware that his young receiver didn’t record a catch last game — the coach schemed a look directly to Rome Odunze on the Bears’ first play of the game and continued to pepper him throughout. With a team-high 10 targets, Odunze looked much more like the did in the early few weeks of the season as the Bears schemed their top wide receiver with several first-read looks. Johnson schemed up a look to get Odunze wide open in the end zone on a short-yardage touchdown. Williams nearly had him for another one where he had a step on the defense on a deep ball, but Odunze was overthrown in the end zone.

 

DJ Moore: 4 Targets

For the second straight week, a starting Bears wide receiver got blanked and produced 0.00 fantasy points. Last week, Odunze had the honors. This week it was DJ Moore. And just like Odunze last week, Moore also dropped a target in the end zone (albeit, a higher difficulty level on this one).

 

Colston Loveland: 4 Targets, 4 Receptions, 55 Yards

Cole Kmet: 2 Targets, 1 Reception, 5 Yards

With Cole Kmet fully healthy (or at least healthy enough to play), Colston Loveland took a huge step forward as the top pass-catching tight end on the depth chart. Kmet still led in snaps (barely), but Loveland ran four more routes and was targeted twice as often. Loveland had one of the best highlights of the entire game — he had no business making this catch.

 

Olamide Zaccheaus: 4 Targets, 1 Reception, 5 Yards

After a pretty large role last week, Olamide Zaccheaus was an afterthought in this game, despite being on the field for 39 snaps.

 

Luther Burden III: 3 Targets, 3 Receptions, 51 Yards

Luther Burden III seems to have finally forced his way onto the field for the Bears, manning the perimeter for 33 snaps, just under 50% of the Bears’ offensive plays. Burden passed the eye test, he ran crisp routes and got good separation on the plays that I saw and could pass Zaccheaus on the depth chart if he continues to develop.

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