While Chicago Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky still has plenty to prove, last week’s performance against the Detroit Lions was encouraging.
After completing 69% of his passes for 173 yards and three touchdowns for a passer rating of 131.0, Trubisky moved from 31st to 28th in NFL.com’s Week 11 QB rankings.
Not exactly where the Bears expected their quarterback would land this season, but any improvement is significant at this point.
The Bears snapped their four-game losing streak in a divisional 20-13 win over the Lions to improve to 4-5 on the season.
Here’s a snippet of what was said about Trubisky’s performance against the Lions:
Skeptics of the value of passer rating as a stat might want to take note of Trubisky’s day against the Lions, which he finished with the third-best mark of his career (131.0) while also leading an offense that produced seven three-and-outs, tied for the most by any team in any game this season. The degree of difficulty wasn’t exactly high for Trubisky against the Lions’ 28th-ranked pass defense.
In eight games this season, Trubisky has a 63.6% of his passes for 1,390 yards with eight touchdowns and three interceptions.
As for the rest of the NFC North, Aaron Rodgers ranks fifth, Matthew Stafford ranks sixth and Kirk Cousins ranks 11th.