By Sean Hammond

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 ca

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