Case Keenum threw a touchdown tonight to a receiver who was nine years old when Keenum made his first NFL start. Luther Burden III was born December 12, 2003. Case Keenum made his first NFL start on October 20, 2013. Tonight they connected for eight yards and a touchdown on Monday Night Football. Burden went to the Chicago Bears in the second round last year, 39th overall. Keenum was not drafted at all. Caleb Williams was ruled out and backup Tyson Bagent is in concussion protocol, so Chicago handed the ball to their third quarterback. And here is what people have forgotten about him. Case Keenum is the most productive passer in the history of college football. Not one of. The most. At Houston he threw for 19,217 yards, still the NCAA record. He completed 1,546 passes, also the record. His 155 touchdowns are tied for the most anybody has ever thrown. He is the only quarterback ever to throw for 5,000 yards in three different seasons. He went undrafted. Every team passed on him seven times in 2012. The Houston Texans signed him as a free agent and put him on the practice squad, which is where the all time leading passer in college football history spent his first pro season. What followed is one of the longest tours in football. Houston. The Rams. Minnesota. Denver. Washington. Cleveland. Buffalo. Houston again. Now Chicago. His best year was 2017, when Sam Bradford got hurt and Keenum took over the Minnesota Vikings and won thirteen games. Then in the playoffs he threw the Minneapolis Miracle, the last second touchdown to Stefon Diggs that beat New Orleans. That was nine years ago. Tonight he came off the bench of the bench and scored three touchdowns. Eight yards to Burden. Forty one to Kalif Raymond. Then he kept it himself from a yard out. No interceptions. Chicago did not turn it over once. Chicago Bears 27, Philadelphia Eagles 7. The kid who caught his first touchdown of the night was in fourth grade the last time Keenum was somebody's new starting quarterback.