Rams withstand Caleb Williams' heroic touchdown to stun Bears in overtime, move on to NFC title game

The Los Angeles Rams and Chicago Bears gave it each they had successful the NFC Divisional Round connected Sunday nighttime and they delivered an epic matchup that NFL fans volition retrieve for a while.

Rams rookie kicker Harrison Mevis nailed the game-winning tract extremity to nonstop Los Angeles location happy, 20-17. The Rams volition conscionable the Seattle Seahawks successful the NFC Championship.

Los Angeles moving backmost Kyren Williams punched the go-ahead people into the extremity portion and the defence stymied the Chicago Bears astatine the extremity enactment successful what appeared to beryllium the past stand.

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Chicago Bears information Jaquan Brisker reacts aft collecting a sack against Los Angeles Rams backmost Matthew Stafford during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot divisional playoff crippled Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, successful Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Williams’ 5-yard touchdown tally ended a 14-play, 91-yard thrust with 8:50 near successful the game. It was Williams’ 2nd touchdown of the crippled and it was precisely what Los Angeles needed to triumph the crippled arsenic scoring was highly hard to travel by successful the 2nd half.

The Bears failing to get into the extremity portion aft a 12-play, 61-yard thrust was the closest Chicago got successful the 2nd half. The Bears punted 3 times and Caleb Williams threw a important interception successful the 3rd 4th connected their erstwhile second-half drives.

But Williams had 1 instrumentality up his sleeve.

With their backs against the wall, the Bears prima  mustered up the past spot of magic helium could. He took the drawback connected 4th-and-4 from the Rams’ 14-yard line. He felt the unit and ran astir 25 yards backward earlier helium decided to occurrence the shot into the extremity portion with 3 Rams defenders successful his face.

Somehow, Williams recovered choky extremity Cole Kmet successful the extremity portion for the touchdown. Kmet broke escaped from Rams cornerback Cobie Durant and secured the catch. Cairo Santos deed the game-tying other constituent and the crippled was sent into overtime.

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Chicago Bears antiaircraft extremity Dominique Robinson (90) sacks Los Angeles Rams backmost Matthew Stafford during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot divisional playoff crippled Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, successful Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Williams made a akin play successful the NFC Wild Card Round matchup against the Green Bay Packers. The play saved their play – arsenic did the 1 connected Sunday night.

In the overtime period, Williams enactment the crippled connected his shoulder. He made a agelong tally connected 3rd down to support the thrust live aboriginal successful the series. On 4th-and-1, the Bears didn’t flinch and went for a archetypal down. Again, Williams’ fig was called and helium got the yardage needed to widen the drive. Just erstwhile it appeared that the Bears had everything going their way, Williams threw his 3rd prime of the nighttime to Kam Curl.

Matthew Stafford past locked successful and led the Rams connected the game-winning thrust that ended with the Mevis tract goal.

Stafford was 20-of-42 with 258 passing yards. He was sacked 4 times. Williams led the Rams with 87 rushing yards connected 21 carries. Colby Parkinson had 3 catches for 56 yards.

Los Angeles Rams moving backmost Kyren Williams (23) celebrates his touchdown tally with halfway Coleman Shelton (65) during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot divisional playoff crippled against the Chicago Bears Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, successful Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Williams was 23-of-42 with 257 passing yards, 2 touchdown passes and 3 picks. D’Andre Swift had 76 rushing yards connected 19 carries. Bears choky extremity Colston Loveland led the squad with 4 catches for 56 yards.

The Rams are backmost successful the NFC Championship Game for the archetypal clip since the 2021 season. In that year, Los Angeles topped the San Francisco 49ers and past defeated the Cincinnati Bengals successful Super Bowl LVI.

It volition beryllium the 3rd league rubric crippled quality successful the Sean McVay era. The Rams defeated the New Orleans Saints successful the arguable NFC Championship successful the 2018 season. But Los Angeles mislaid to the New England Patriots successful the Super Bowl.

Los Angeles Rams backmost Matthew Stafford, right, looks to walk arsenic teammate defender Steve Avila, center, blocks Chicago Bears antiaircraft tackle Gervon Dexter Sr. (99) during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot divisional playoff crippled Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, successful Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

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Los Angeles volition instrumentality connected the Seahawks for the close to play successful Super Bowl LX. The victor volition either look the Denver Broncos oregon New England Patriots.

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