First time for everything: Punter completes longest Bears pass of the year

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Monday's night Bears-Vikings game was all about Mitch Trubisky for Bears fans, but the longest pass play of the Bears season isn't Trubisky's, nor Mike Glennon's.

It's Pat O'Donnell that has that honor. That's punter Pat O'Donnell.

With the Bears trailing 10-2 in the third quarter, O'Donnell lined up for a punt but immediately passed to Benny Cunningham, who beat two defenders in the open field to score  38-yard touchdown. That's the longest passing play of the Bears season.

Glennon's long completion of the year is 29 yards. Trubisky's long on Monday was 20 yards.

The easy joke is to say that O'Donnell is now the quarterback of the future for the Bears, but by his own admission he said he's never run a fake punt pass play before.

He said as much in an interview on Bears Postgame Live with host Laurence Holmes. Check out clips from the interview in the video above.

"It was the first ever fake that I’ve ever tried to complete in a game, let alone college, little league, so it was nice to have that on Monday Night Football with Benny Cunningham making that touchdown," O'Donnell said.

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