If you just saw it passing by on the news scroll on the bottom of your TV you would have read something like, "Trubisky Rush TD Eight-Yards." What it wouldn't tell you—and what the box score stat line doesn't indicate—is that to get that 8-Yards, Chicago QB Mitchell Trubisky ran for over 70 yards on the play.

The play happened at the end of the first quarter of Sunday's game between the Bears and the New England Patriots. With New England leading the game 7-3 and the ball on the Patriots nine-yard line Trubisky took the ball in the shotgun and with his receivers all well-covered and the New England defensive line breaking through, Mitchell was forced to scramble out of the pocket.

The scramble took him all the back to the 30-yard line on the right-hand side of the field, then all the way back across the field and finally in for a touchdown right by the lefthand end zone marker.

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ESPN reports that, according to NFL Next Gen Stats, Trubisky covered a total of 71.91 yards on the play. That 71+ yards covered is the most by any QB, as a ball carrier, this season in the NFL.

And Trubisky wasn't done rushing in the game either. In the third quarter, he had a 39-yard run down to the Patriot one-yard line, which led to a one-yard TD catch by running back Tarik Cohen. On a team with a couple of pretty good running backs, Trubisky's 39-yard run was the longest by any Bear player this season.

In total, Trubisky ended the game with 81 rushing yards which is the most rushing yards in a game for a Chicago Bears quarterback in 18 years going back all the way to Cade McNown's 87-yard rushing game in 2000.

McNown, like Trubisky, was also a Bears first round pick (number 12 in 1999 vs number three in 2017). But, unlike Trubisky, McNown was gone after one season (traded to the San Fransisco 49ers for a conditional seventh-round pick).

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