SEATTLE (Interstat) — Caleb Williams threw for a touchdown, D’Andre Swift ran for three scores and the Chicago Bears beat the Seattle Seahawks 34-17 on Monday at Lumen Field. The announced attendance was 68,739. Chicago improved to 6-2, while Seattle dropped to 4-4. The Bears pulled away with two fourth-quarter touchdown runs from Swift after the Seahawks had closed within three points.

Chicago opened the scoring in the first quarter when Williams passed short right to Luther Burden for a 1-yard touchdown with 5:25 remaining. Cairo Santos added the extra point. Seattle answered in the second quarter with Jason Myers’ 27-yard field goal with 12:50 remaining. The Bears then got field goals of 44 and 38 yards from Santos, the first with 6:07 left and the second with 1:08 left, to build a 13-3 lead. The Seahawks cut into the deficit just before halftime when Sam Darnold threw deep left to Jaxon Smith-Njigba for a 43-yard touchdown with 0:30 remaining. Myers’ extra point was no good wide left, and Chicago led 13-9 at halftime.

Seattle’s defense kept the game close into the third quarter, but Chicago extended its lead when Swift scored on a 1-yard run with 5:38 remaining and Santos kicked the extra point. The Seahawks responded early in the fourth quarter when Darnold found Cooper Kupp for a 7-yard touchdown with 11:46 remaining and connected with Tory Horton on a two-point conversion to make it a three-point game. Chicago answered with two more Swift touchdown runs, one from 5 yards with 8:28 remaining and another from 5 yards with 4:41 remaining, with Santos converting both extra points to finish the scoring.

Williams completed 24 of 34 passes for 247 yards and one touchdown and ran twice for 1 yard. Darnold completed 17 of 34 passes for 188 yards and two touchdowns and ran twice for 20 yards. Swift finished with 27 carries for 69 yards and two receptions for 10 yards to go with his three touchdowns. Smith-Njigba had six receptions for 118 yards and a touchdown. Rome Odunze caught four passes for 87 yards, Colston Loveland had seven receptions for 65 yards and Burden had seven catches for 56 yards and a touchdown. Kalif Raymond added a 39-yard run and two receptions for 14 yards. Roschon Johnson had five carries for 17 yards and one reception for 11 yards. Zavion Thomas had one reception for 4 yards and four kickoff returns for 88 yards.

Josh Jobe had five tackles for Seattle, Michael Dickson punted five times for 259 yards, Jadarian Price ran 10 times for 29 yards and caught two passes for 8 yards, Zach Charbonnet ran six times for 23 yards and caught three passes for 6 yards, and George Holani ran once for 9 yards and returned six kickoffs for 144 yards. Horton caught three passes for 26 yards and returned two punts for 12 yards, AJ Barner caught two passes for 23 yards, Kupp caught one pass for 7 yards and a score, and Myers was 1 for 2 on field goals. DeMarcus Lawrence had three tackles. Ernest Jones IV led Seattle with 13 tackles, Devon Witherspoon had eight, and Julian Love, Jarran Reed and Drake Thomas each had seven. Nick Emmanwori added five tackles. Mike Morris had four tackles and one sack, Derick Hall had four tackles, and Nehemiah Pritchett, Leonard Williams, Ty Okada and Byron Murphy II each had three tackles. Rodney Thomas II had two tackles, and Abraham Lucas, Tyrice Knight, Irv Charles, Brady Russell, Patrick O’Connell and Rylie Mills each had one.

Chicago’s defense also produced pressure. Devin Bush and Jeffery Simmons each had six tackles and one sack. Tyrique Stevenson Sr., Jaylon Johnson and Dillon Thieneman each made five tackles. Austin Booker had three tackles, Daniel Hardy and Noah Sewell each had three, and T.J. Edwards and Cam Lewis each had two. Tory Taylor punted three times for 147 yards. The Bears’ special teams also got solid work from Santos, who converted all four of his extra-point attempts and both of his field-goal attempts. Williams had completed 22 of 33 passes for 308 yards and two touchdowns in Chicago’s previous game against New England. The Seahawks moved the ball well at times through Smith-Njigba and Kupp, but the missed extra point and the two fourth-quarter touchdown runs by Swift accounted for the final margin.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Seattle 39, Chicago 22. Interstat’s ELO system had projected Seattle with an 86.9 percent probability to win. Seattle had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -3.5. The total score of 51 went under the over/under line of 46.5.