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Chicago Bears’ Luther Burden III gets away from Green Bay Packers’ Devonte Wyatt during the first half of an NFL football game in Green Bay, Wis., Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer) ORG XMIT: FLMG156
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — Packers linebacker Zaire Franklin heard what Bears receiver Luther Burden said Monday about making his rival want to quit.
Sunday, he had the last laugh.
“We see all the little weird stuff they be doing in the media and all the different stuff they be saying,” Franklin, who was traded from the Colts to the Packers in March, told Packers reporters after their 31-7 win at Lambeau Field. “You’ve got guys that have never really made a real play in this league talking about making somebody quit. That’s weird. We don’t do that.
“He quit today, by the day. He didn’t want to play any more.”
On Monday, Burden said that “we just want to beat [the Packers] real bad and make them quit.”
Notes
• The Bears’ run game struggled beyond just D’Andre Swift on Sunday. Backup running back Roschon Johnson, receiver Kalif Raymond and Burden combined to run 10 times for six yards. Burden had four carries for two yards.
• Bears rookie kick returner Zavion Thomas’ 61-yard return in the fourth quarter was his longest of the season.
• The Bears’ lone touchdown drive went 9 minutes, 10 seconds. They held the ball for 9:16 at the end of the game last week. Entering Sunday, there had been only eight instances, league-wide, of a nine-plus-minute drive this season.