CHICAGO (Interstat) — Caleb Williams threw for 308 yards and two touchdowns, Cairo Santos made three field goals, and the Chicago Bears held off the New England Patriots 30-24 on Thursday at Soldier Field. The Bears improved to 5-2, while the Patriots fell to 4-3 in the NFL game played before an announced attendance of 60,520.

Chicago opened the scoring with Santos’ 43-yard field goal with 9:53 left in the first quarter. The Bears extended their lead when D’Andre Swift ran 4 yards off left end for a touchdown, and Santos added the extra point with 1:38 remaining in the quarter. New England got on the board in the second quarter when Drake Maye scrambled right for a 6-yard touchdown with 11:33 left. Santos kicked a 31-yard field goal with 7:04 remaining, and Williams found Luther Burden III on a 24-yard touchdown pass with 14 seconds left in the half. New England answered just before halftime when Maye hit Rhamondre Stevenson on a 48-yard touchdown pass with no time remaining in the second quarter, and Andy Borregales made the extra point.

Chicago stretched its lead in the third quarter when Williams connected with Colston Loveland on a 12-yard touchdown pass with 9:41 remaining. New England responded with Maye’s 30-yard touchdown pass to Eli Raridon with 3:46 left in the quarter, and Borregales added the extra point. Santos then made a 58-yard field goal with 1:34 remaining in the fourth quarter to give Chicago a nine-point cushion. Borregales closed the scoring with a 47-yard field goal with 37 seconds left.

Maye completed 24 of 31 passes for 321 yards and two touchdowns, and he added four runs for 26 yards and a rushing touchdown for New England. Williams completed 22 of 33 passes for 308 yards and two touchdowns, and he ran five times for 18 yards for Chicago. Stevenson finished with six carries for 22 yards and five receptions for 93 yards and a touchdown. Hunter Henry caught seven passes for 71 yards. Raridon had three receptions for 56 yards and a touchdown. A.J. Brown added three receptions for 48 yards, DeMario Douglas had three for 23 yards, Efton Chism III had one for 16 yards, and TreVeyon Henderson had three carries for 9 yards and two receptions for 14 yards. Corey Kiner had four carries for 13 yards and four kickoff returns for 102 yards. Kyle Williams returned two kickoffs for 47 yards.

For Chicago, Swift ran 22 times for 78 yards and a touchdown and caught four passes for 12 yards. Burden caught four passes for 130 yards and a touchdown and ran once for 7 yards. Loveland had seven receptions for 69 yards and a touchdown. Rome Odunze caught four passes for 69 yards, Cole Kmet had three for 28 yards, and Roschon Johnson ran twice for 13 yards. Kalif Raymond returned one punt for 7 yards. Santos made three of four field goals and all three extra points, and Tory Taylor punted twice for 107 yards.

Defensively, Christian Elliss led New England with 13 tackles. Marcus Jones had nine tackles, one sack and a 19-yard punt return. Craig Woodson added eight tackles, Kevin Byard had seven, Charles Woods and Robert Spillane each had five, and Cory Durden and Christian Gonzalez each had four. Christian Barmore and Leonard Taylor III each recorded a sack among their tackles. Darius Muasau, Jaylen Reed and Milton Williams each had two tackles, while Dre’Mont Jones, Kindle Vildor, Mike Brown, Elijah Ponder and Gabe Jacas each had one. Mitch Wishnowsky punted four times for 180 yards for the Patriots. Borregales made his only field-goal attempt.

For Chicago, Dillon Thieneman had eight tackles and half a sack. D’Marco Jackson recorded six tackles and an interception. Kyler Gordon had five tackles and a sack, Cam Lewis added five tackles, and Devin Bush, Tyrique Stevenson Sr. and Daniel Hardy each had four. Hardy also had half a sack. Austin Booker and Buddy Johnson each had three tackles, and Malik Muhammad II had three. Chicago’s defense helped preserve the lead after New England moved the ball through the air for much of the game.

New England had won its previous two games, against the New York Jets and Las Vegas, before the loss. Chicago had won at Atlanta in its previous game. The Patriots continued to move the ball effectively through Maye, who spread completions among Henry, Raridon, Stevenson, Brown, Douglas, Chism and Henderson. The Bears countered with Williams directing an offense that produced two touchdown passes and enough late kicking to finish the scoring.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Chicago 26, New England 24, and Interstat’s ELO system gave Chicago a 50.1 percent probability to win. Chicago had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -2.5. The total score of 54 went under the over/under line of 50.5.