The studs and duds from the Green Bay Packers' 31-7 win over the Chicago Bears in Week 5:
Studs
QB Jordan Love: The numbers tell the story. Love completed over 80 percent of his passes, had a pair of touchdown passes over 40 yards, threw for 367 yards and didn't have a turnover. Four of his completions gained at least 40 yards, and he had five completions thrown over 30 yards in the air. Love is a big game hunter as a passer, and Sunday was his masterpiece. As is usually true, Love was excellent from clean pockets and was deadly off play-action fakes.
WR Christian Watson: He caught passes for 42 yards (touchdown), 31 yards and 53 yards (touchdown) and finished with six catches for 143 yards. His speed overwhelmed the Bears coverage. The 53-yard touchdown catch was
one of the most impressive plays of Watson's career. He tracked the ball well, especially considering the throw traveled over 60 yards in the air, and then made a tough catch over top of a defender.
WR Matthew Golden: His six catches gained 123 yards. On a touchdown drive spanning the end of the third and start of the fourth quarter, Golden caught a pair of passes for 51 yards, including an impressive pluck of the ball for 36 yards, and he was wide open for the two-point conversion following the touchdown. Later, he got behind the coverage and made a contested catch for 50 yards. He also came in and returned two punts for 27 yards, including a 17-yarder in which he easily sidestepped the first tackler and then raced up field.
RT Anthony Belton: He has really settled in at right tackle. Over 34 pass-blocking snaps, Belton didn't allow a pressure. And for just the second time in his career as a starter, he didn't allow a pressure or have a penalty.
EDGE Brenton Cox: Next Gen Stats credited Cox with a team-high seven pressures, and all three of his tackles against the run resulted in failures for the offense, including a stop of D'Andre Swift for no gain.
EDGE Dani Dennis-Sutton: His 24 pass-rushing snaps resulted in five pressures, including a truly impressive one-on-one win against the left tackle for a solo sack. The rookie also recovered a fumble, and he had a stop of Swift for no gain at the 1-yard line and had a tackle for loss hustling after a screen pass on third down.
S Xavier McKinney: The All-Pro had only one tackle, which is probably a good thing overall. You don't want your free safety making a lot of tackles. Both of McKinney's interceptions set up touchdown drives. He made a nice catch of a deflected pass -- assist goes to Javon Bullard -- and he baited Tyson Bagent into a bad throw in the second half.
S Evan Williams: He got the party started early, providing a crunching stop on the opening kickoff return and then containing Luther Burden after just one yard on the Bears' opening play. Williams finished with 12 tackles, and many were cleanup tackles at the second level, but he is such a reliable tackler and an impact run defender. He also recovered a fumble.
CB Keisean Nixon: His run defense was terrific, and he helped blow up three different perimeter run or screen plays, including Luther Burden's 6-yard loss. In coverage, Nixon allowed only three catches on seven targets for 20 yards, per Next Gen Stats' tracking. He was all over Rome Odunze on a throw into the end zone.
Duds
K Trey Smack: The rookie kicker left seven points on the board, missing an extra point in the third quarter and then back-to-back field goals under 50 yards in the fourth quarter. His first missed field goal was an ugly hit of the ball, and it appeared to knuckle as it flew through the air. It appeared he misread the wind on the second miss. The kicking situation is definitely something to watch moving forward; Smack has been good early, but he'll need to rebound from a shaky performance.
RG Travis Glover: While surprisingly competent in his first start last week, Glover took a step back against the Bears. He gave up a handful of pressures, including a one-on-one loss in the second half that allowed Jordan Love to take a big hit. The Packers want to be an outside zone run team that can use boot actions, but Glover just isn't a good fit in the scheme as a run blocker. Kevin Zeitler will eventually be the starter at right guard.
This article originally appeared on Packers Wire: Studs and duds from Packers' 31-7 win over Bears in Week 5
