D’Andre Swift’s line from Monday night in Seattle looked like two different games. He had 27 carries for 69 yards, 2.6 yards per carry, and no run longer than seven yards. He also scored three touchdowns.
That’s been Swift’s season lately. The yards come slowly, but the touchdowns keep coming.
Swift is up to 10 rushing touchdowns through eight games, the most by a Bears back at this point of a season since Rick Casares in 1956. He has scored in four straight games, which no Bear had done since Neal Anderson in 1990. He already has more rushing touchdowns than Walter Payton had in eight of his 13 seasons. The franchise single-season record is 14, shared by Payton and Gale Sayers. Swift needs four to tie it and five to take it alone, with nine games left.
Nov 2, 2026; Seattle, Washington, USA; Chicago Bears running back D’Andre Swift (4) carries for the touchdown as Seattle Seahawks cornerback Josh Jobe (29) defends during the fourth quarter at Lumen Field. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-Imagn ImagesThe Yards Have Been Harder to Find For D’Andre Swift
Swift hasn’t been unproductive. He has 545 rushing yards on 143 carries, and he’s on pace for roughly 1,500 yards from scrimmage. But his 3.8 yards per carry tells you the running game isn’t what it was in September.
Monangai’s injury is the clearest dividing line. Over the first four weeks, the Bears were one of the league’s most run-heavy offenses, averaging nearly 40 carries and 196.3 rushing yards per game at 4.9 yards per carry. In the four games since Monangai went down, those numbers have dropped to 30.5 carries, 105.3 yards and 3.34 yards per carry.
That’s 91 fewer rushing yards per game, nearly a yard and a half less per carry, and about nine fewer runs each week. The Bears went 3-1 in both stretches, so the offense has found other ways to win. But the running game that was carrying the Bears early is now mostly grinding out what it can.
Ben Johnson didn’t sugarcoat it Wednesday.
“It’s inconsistent,” Johnson said on Wednesday. “I know we started hot early in the year just being able to run the football, but we have faced some tough opponents, and it’s been a little bit spotty. We stick with it though.”
Oct 4, 2026; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Chicago Bears quarterback Tyson Bagent (17) hands the ball off to running back D’Andre Swift (4) against the New York Jets during the first quarter at Soldier Field. Mandatory Credit: Matt Marton-Imagn ImagesJohnson pointed out that the first half has been the bigger problem, and Monday fit that pattern. Swift had 11 carries for 26 yards and no touchdowns before halftime. After halftime, he had 16 carries for 43 yards and all three scores. Johnson also liked that the yards, while hard to come by, weren’t going backward.
“The fortunate thing is we weren’t really having negative runs,” Johnson said. “They were twos and threes, and those were hard yards, but it is something we’re committed to, and we put a lot of time and effort into this.”
A Different Kind of Back
When Monangai went down, Swift took over that role, and it was short-yardage and goal-line work.
Seven of Swift’s 10 touchdowns have come in the four games without Monangai, the most rushing touchdowns of any player in the league over that span. The Bears’ red zone offense has improved along with him. They scored touchdowns on all four trips inside Seattle’s 20 on Monday, after going 3-for-4 against New England and 2-for-3 against Atlanta. That adds up to 9-of-12 since Caleb Williams returned, for a team Johnson said ranked 32nd in the league in the red zone earlier this year.
“It’s gone up, which I think there was only one direction for it to go,” Johnson said. “But it goes back – and it’s what you emphasize, and our guys know how important it is to get sevens instead of threes. So it’s a credit to him. It’s a credit to the guys up front as well.”
Johnson also credited Swift’s vision on a couple of looks the Bears hadn’t prepared for. That’s exactly what you need from a back near the goal line, where there’s no room to work with.
Oct 22, 2026; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Chicago Bears running back D’Andre Swift (4) runs the ball against the New England Patriots during the fourth quarter at Soldier Field. Mandatory Credit: Patrick Gorski-Imagn ImagesThe Workload Question
The tradeoff is volume. Swift got 27 carries in Seattle, and a lot of them were in tight spaces. Johnson said the team is keeping an eye on it.
“We’re conscious of it, and certainly he’s not a guy that we want to wear down,” Johnson said. “We’re going to need him for the whole duration of the season.”
That leads to the interesting part of the second half. Johnson called a healthy Monangai “a shot in the arm” for the running game, and it probably would be. It should help the yards per carry and keep Swift fresher for January. But Monangai’s return could also take some of the goal-line carries that are driving Swift’s record chase.
The Bears won’t mind either way, as long as the touchdowns keep coming. Still, how they split those carries over the last nine games is worth watching. Swift has a real shot at a record Payton and Sayers have held for decades.
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