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The Bears return home this week with a chance to reach 8-3 for the first time since 2018, and the path to get there runs straight through a Steelers team that’s always most comfortable turning games into street fights.

Chicago has won seven of its last eight, but Sunday presents a different kind of test—one that could feature Caleb Williams staring across the field at the quarterback he once modeled his game after.

Aaron Rodgers remains questionable, but even the possibility of that matchup raises the stakes. Williams has talked openly about studying Rodgers’ mechanics, creativity, and off-platform brilliance when he was coming out of USC.

Now, he might get his first shot at beating the player whose style helped shape his own. Whether Rodgers suits up or not, the storyline looms over this matchup: the ascending No. 1 pick trying to push Chicago toward the NFC’s top tier, and the future Hall of Famer fighting to salvage Pittsburgh’s season.

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