The Chicago Bears beat the Seattle Seahawks 34-17 on Monday night, Nov. 2, at Lumen Field, and the story of the night was a running back who gained only 69 yards. D’Andre Swift carried 27 times and scored three times, all from five yards or closer.

The win lifted Chicago to 6-2. Seattle fell to 4-4 and took its first loss by more than four points in 30 games, playoffs included.

The Bears took the opening kickoff and drove 80 yards in 17 plays, taking 8:32 off the clock. Swift converted a fourth-and-1 with a 5-yard run on the way, and Caleb Williams finished it with a 1-yard touchdown pass to Luther Burden III.

Swift’s touchdowns came later, and each one followed a long drive or a turnover.

1. Third quarterA 10-play, 69-yard drive ends with a 1-yard Swift run. Chicago leads 20-9.
2. Fourth quarter, 11:46 leftSeattle cuts it to 20-17. Chicago answers with a six-play, 56-yard drive and a 5-yard Swift run.
3. Fourth quarter, 4:41 leftJames Lynch intercepts Sam Darnold and returns it to the Seattle 6. Swift scores from the 5 and it is 34-17.

Swift scored three times in the season opener, at Carolina, then went three straight games without a touchdown. Seven of his 10 have come in the last four games.

The first four games brought three touchdowns on 311 yards and 69 carries. The last four brought seven on 234 yards and 74 carries. He is scoring more even as the yards per carry have stayed modest: 545 yards on 143 carries is 3.8 a carry.

Swift's rushing touchdowns, game by game

Week 6 at Atlanta, where he scored twice in a 31-23 win, was the start of the run. He then added one in the 30-24 win over New England on Oct. 22 and the three in Seattle.

Chicago won all three games in which he scored at least twice: Carolina, Atlanta and Seattle.

Swift now leads the league alone with 10 rushing touchdowns. Josh Allen had held the top spot by himself with nine since Buffalo’s win over Baltimore on Sunday, and Swift began the night with seven.

Behind them five players are tied at eight.

Rushing touchdowns after Week 8

Swift also moved into a tie for the most touchdowns by anyone who runs or catches the ball. Detroit’s Jahmyr Gibbs has 10 as well, eight rushing and two receiving, and has played one game fewer. Swift’s 10 are all rushing.

Four players have nine touchdowns of any kind: Henry, Allen, Williams and Seattle’s Jaxon Smith-Njigba, whose nine are all receiving.

Swift led after Week 1 with three touchdowns to Allen’s two. Then Allen pulled ahead and stayed ahead through Week 7. The Bills quarterback scored in each of Buffalo’s first five games and had eight by the end of Week 5.

Swift passed him only on Monday night.

1. Week 1Swift 3, Allen 2.
2. Weeks 2 to 4Allen scores five times in three games and reaches 7. Swift is stuck on 3.
3. Week 5Allen 8 after a 121-yard game. Swift scores his fourth.
4. Week 6Swift scores twice and reaches 6. Allen has 8 and a 1-yard day.
5. Week 7Swift 7 after beating New England. Allen is on his bye with 8.
6. Week 8Swift scores three and passes him, 10 to 9, after Allen adds one at Baltimore.

The other four belong to Henry in Week 1, Javonte Williams and Brian Robinson Jr. in Week 4 and Tony Pollard in Week 7.

Allen and Cook face Minnesota next on Monday night, Nov. 9, at 8:15 p.m. ET, which is 3:15 a.m. Tuesday in Cairo.

Swift’s night was not about big gains. His longest run was 7 yards, and he averaged 2.6 a carry. It was about time of possession. Chicago held the ball for 35:03 to Seattle’s 24:57, ran 70 plays to 56 and was 7 of 15 on third down.

Time of possession (minutes)

Third-down conversions

Chicago also went 4 of 4 in the red zone, while Seattle was 1 of 4. Seattle gained only 252 yards and ran for 81, and Jadarian Price and Zach Charbonnet, back from injuries, had 10 and six carries.

Williams was 24 of 34 for 247 yards, one touchdown, no interceptions and one sack. The Bears were penalized 10 times for 85 yards and still won by 17.

The single-season record for rushing touchdowns is 28, set by LaDainian Tomlinson in 2006. Swift’s 10 in eight games is a pace of about 21 over 17 games. That is well short of the record.

Rushing touchdowns, pace and record

To tie Tomlinson, Swift would need 18 more in the nine games the Bears have left, which is 2.0 a game. He has averaged 1.25.

Among the touchdown leaders, Gibbs has the best rate, at 1.43 a game, which projects to 24 over 17 games.

Chicago made it hard on itself at times. Colston Loveland fumbled after a catch in the fourth quarter and DeMarcus Lawrence recovered it, which led to a Seattle touchdown and a two-point conversion that made it 20-17.

The Bears answered with the six-play drive that ended in a Swift touchdown.

Williams called the Seahawks “a worthy opponent” and said the Bears’ identity “had to show up” against them. The Bears had a new piece too: Jeffery Simmons, acquired from the Titans last week, made his debut with a sack, two tackles for loss and a pass defensed.

Chicago hosts the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday night, Nov. 8, at 8:20 p.m. ET, which is 3:20 a.m. Monday in Cairo. Tampa Bay has allowed 640 rushing yards in eight games, 80.0 a game, by our tally of the official box scores.

Rushing yards allowed by Tampa Bay, 2026

The Buccaneers are 3-5. Last Sunday they shut out Atlanta 16-0 while running for 324 yards with zero completions.

After Tampa Bay and the bye, the schedule brings Swift two of the league’s other top touchdown scorers.

1. Sun, Nov. 8Tampa Bay at Soldier Field, 8:20 p.m. ET.
2. Week 10Bears' bye.
3. Sun, Nov. 22New Orleans at Chicago.
4. Thu, Nov. 26At Detroit on Thanksgiving, against Gibbs and the Lions.
5. Sat, Dec. 19At Buffalo, against Allen and the Bills.