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LAKE FOREST, Ill. – The Bears defense recorded a sack in every game during the 2007 for the first time since 1990 and just the third time in a 16-game season since sacks became an official statistic in 1982.
Dating back to 2006, the Bears have registered at least one sack in 21 straight regular-season contests, the longest such streak since they also had a sack in 21 consecutive contests from Sept. 23, 2001-Oct. 20, 2002.

The Bears finished with 41 sacks in 2007, the sixth most in the NFL. The five teams ahead of them all made the playoffs with the top two squads, the New York Giants (53 sacks) and New England Patriots (47) meeting in Super Bowl XXLII.

Defensive end Adewale Ogunleye led the Bears with nine sacks, upping his career total to a team-leading 55½. Defensive tackle Tommie Harris recorded a career-high eight sacks. Defensive end Mark Anderson and middle linebacker Brian Urlacher had five sacks apiece. And defensive end Alex Brown compiled 4½ sacks.

Anderson and Ogunleye rank second and third in Bears history in average sacks per game with .57 and .54, respectively. The franchise’s all-time sacks leader, former defensive end Richard Dent, is tops with an average of .73 sacks per game.
Harris’ eight sacks were second most in the NFL among defensive tackles in 2007 to the Arizona Cardinals’ Darnell Dockett, who had nine. Dockett replaced Harris in the Pro Bowl after the Bears defensive tackle pulled out of the game with an injury.



Bears bagged at least one sack in every game in '07 - Chicago Bears