most passing touchdowns by a bears rookie from 1942 to 2020

From 1942 through 2020, Charlie O'Rourke had the most passing touchdowns by a rookie for the Bears, with 11 touchdowns in 1942.

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	NAME	TD	SEASON	TM	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Charlie O'Rourke C. O'Rourke	11	1942	CHB	11	37	88	42.0	951	10.8	86.5	16	82.1	12.5	18.2
2	Kyle Orton K. Orton	9	2005	CHI	15	190	368	51.6	1,869	5.1	124.6	13	59.7	2.4	3.5	30	190
3	Jim McMahon J. McMahon	9	1982	CHI	8	120	210	57.1	1,501	7.1	187.6	7	79.9	4.3	3.3	27	196
4	Cade McNown C. McNown	8	1999	CHI	15	127	235	54.0	1,465	6.2	97.7	10	66.7	3.4	4.3	18	94
5	Zeke Bratkowski Z. Bratkowski	8	1954	CHB	12	67	130	51.5	1,087	8.4	90.6	17	60.8	6.2	13.1
6	Mitchell Trubisky M. Trubisky	7	2017	CHI	12	196	330	59.4	2,193	6.6	182.8	7	77.5	2.1	2.1	31	196
7	Bob Avellini B. Avellini	6	1975	CHI	8	67	126	53.2	942	7.5	117.8	11	57.0	4.8	8.7	13	144
8	Johnny Lujack J. Lujack	6	1948	CHB	9	36	66	54.5	611	9.3	67.9	3	97.5	9.1	4.5
9	Bobby Douglass B. Douglass	5	1969	CHI	11	68	148	45.9	773	5.2	70.3	8	50.9	3.4	5.4	37	312
10	Nick Sacrinty N. Sacrinty	5	1947	CHB	11	15	48	31.3	299	6.2	27.2	3	62.8	10.4	6.3
11	Mike Hohensee M. Hohensee	4	1987	CHI	2	28	52	53.8	343	6.6	171.5	1	92.1	7.7	1.9	3	19
12	Virgil Carter V. Carter	4	1968	CHI	7	55	122	45.1	769	6.3	109.9	5	59.8	3.3	4.1
13	Craig Krenzel C. Krenzel	3	2004	CHI	6	59	127	46.5	718	5.7	119.7	6	52.5	2.4	4.7	23	158
14	Henry Burris H. Burris	3	2002	CHI	6	18	51	35.3	207	4.1	34.5	5	28.4	5.9	9.8	4	20
15	Doug Flutie D. Flutie	3	1986	CHI	4	23	46	50.0	361	7.8	90.3	2	80.1	6.5	4.3	6	30
16	Gary Huff G. Huff	3	1973	CHI	8	54	126	42.9	525	4.2	65.6	8	36.6	2.4	6.3	22	180
17	Ed Brown E. Brown	3	1954	CHB	12	10	17	58.8	283	16.6	23.6	1	118.3	17.6	5.9
18	Bobby Layne B. Layne	3	1948	CHB	11	16	52	30.8	232	4.5	21.1	2	49.5	5.8	3.8
19	Rex Grossman R. Grossman	2	2003	CHI	3	38	72	52.8	437	6.1	145.7	1	74.8	2.8	1.4	4	41
20	Steve Bradley S. Bradley	2	1987	CHI	1	6	18	33.3	77	4.3	77.0	3	45.1	11.1	16.7	3	24
21	Tarik Cohen T. Cohen	1	2017	CHI	16	1	2	50.0	21	10.5	1.3	0	127.1	50.0	0.0	0	0
22	Moses Moreno M. Moreno	1	1998	CHI	2	19	43	44.2	166	3.9	83.0	0	62.7	2.3	0.0	2	16
23	Shane Matthews S. Matthews	1	1996	CHI	2	13	17	76.5	158	9.3	79.0	0	124.1	5.9	0.0	1	3
24	Peter Tom Willis P. Tom Willis	1	1990	CHI	3	9	13	69.2	106	8.2	35.3	1	87.3	7.7	7.7	1	7
25	Gale Sayers G. Sayers	1	1965	CHI	14	2	3	66.7	53	17.7	3.8	1	109.7	33.3	33.3

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