Bears safety Jaquan Brisker finally got his interception.
With about a minute left in Sunday’s 24-18 win, Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford was hit by defensive end Darrell Taylor and fluttered a ball to Brisker at the 18. He caught the ball, slid and started celebrating.
“It felt good getting a game-winning pick,” Brisker said.
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Brisker thought he had an interception about two minutes into the second quarter when he snatched a pass intended for tight end Colby Parkinson. He and Parkinson had been running out of bounds, though, and replay showed Brisker didn’t re-establish himself in bounds before picking off the pass. He needed to put two feet down, and had only one.
The play was ruled an incompletion and the Rams kicked a 37-yard field goal on the next play.
About a minute-and-a-half before his near-interception, Brisker was flagged for an unnecessary roughness penalty when officials ruled he hit Tutu Atwell after he went out of bounds along the Bears sideline.
“He was within the white [chalk], so I just hit him like I usually do,” Brisker said.
He knew after the flag he needed to make it right.
“I owed the team one,” he said.
Brisker, who also sacked Stafford in the fourth quarter, is one of two Bears defenders in the last 76 years to have double digit tackles (12) and at least one sack and one interception in a game. Roquan Smith did it in 2022.