Bears’ trick play in Sunday’s win required perfect execution

The TD gave the Bears a 7-0 lead.

“I was just fired up for the guys,” Hightower said. “It was satisfying for sure because they helped our team in a major way provide a spark and put points on the board early in the game.”

The Bears have practiced the trick play throughout the season.

“It’s really hard, so we worked on it a lot of times,” Hightower said, “shooting it [with a JUGS machine] in the middle, shooting it outside the numbers, shooting it inside the numbers, shooting it all different types of ways to try to catch it, and even how we were going to block it and how DJ was going to sell it, and he did it to perfection. DJ did a really nice job. It’s a credit to those guys. They wanted to make a big play and I’m just proud of them because they did the work.”