Online ticket exchanges are predicting the game will set the benchmark for record prices for a wild-card game, as several factors prop up the market.

NFL data analyst Tej Seth’s rankings of running backs using rushing EPA+ puts both Swift (No. 2 overall!) and Monangai (No. 12) in the top 15 of all NFL backs. Along with the Rams (Blake Corum and Kyren Williams), the Bears were the only other team with two players on the list.

After missing Rome Odunze and Kyler Gordon in the second half of the season, the two were ramped up this week in preparation for Saturday's NFC Wild Card round.

It was the Battle of Bens. Dozens of contestants took to the stage to see who looks the most like Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson at an event Thursday in the south suburbs.

Bears cornerback Tyrique Stevenson has been told all week to be ready to be involved in Saturday’s game. “I was told that last week,” he said, “and I didn’t get in.”