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







The following is the seventh of a 15-part series reviewing the Bears'
2007 season.

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.



 Veteran defensive end Adewale Ogunleye led the Bears with nine sacks
in 2007. 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.

Harris' 13 sacks over the past two seasons are also second among NFL
defensive tackles behind the Green Bay Packers' Corey Williams, who
has 14 in that span.

Harris now has 19½ sacks in four seasons, the fourth most by a Bears
defensive tackle behind Steve McMichael (95), Jim Flanigan (40½) and
William Perry (28½).