"MINNEAPOLIS - Nahshon Wright went up, all the way up, toward the heavens. His arms outstretched, the pass from Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy landed perfectly in the Chicago Bears cornerback's hands. Wright, 27, felt a wave of emotion wash over him. He fell to one knee at the back of the end zone. Teammates Jaquan Brisker and Kevin Byard III were among the first to reach him. They each put a hand on Wright's shoulder pads. They let him feel those emotions."
"Wright's former coach at Laney College, John Beam, died Friday after being shot a day earlier at the Oakland junior college's field house, where he was working as the school's athletic director. "Today he was watching over me," Wright said after the Bears' 19-17 win over the Vikings. "That's crazy. He called me the night before he passed and he told me every game he watched, I just seemed to get a pick. I just know he was behind me today. He was with me today.""
Nahshon Wright intercepted a pass from Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy, leaping to secure the catch and falling to one knee in the end zone. Teammates Jaquan Brisker and Kevin Byard III comforted Wright. Wright's former Laney College coach and athletic director, John Beam, had died after being shot, and Beam had called Wright the night before. Wright plans to give the interception ball to Beam's family as a tribute. The interception was one of two first-half takeaways by the Bears; Byard had his fifth interception. The Bears nearly surrendered a 16-3 lead as Minnesota scored a late touchdown; Devin Duvernay returned a kickoff 56 yards.
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