CANTON, Ohio - Ricky Williams was relaxing on the Miami sideline, his night over, when two Chicago rookies stole the show and the game.

Williams' return to the NFL turned into a non-event as he rushed for 8 yards on five first-half carries Monday night. Instead, the impressive debuts of quarterback Kyle Orton and receiver Mark Bradley lifted the Bears to a 27-24 victory in the Hall of Fame game.

Dan Marino, the Dolphins' great quarterback who was inducted into the Hall the previous day along with Steve Young, Fritz Pollard and Benny Friedman, must have been impressed by the work of Chicago's youngsters.

Orton brought a breath of fresh air to the often-stale Bears offense when he riddled Miami's third-string defense on two late touchdown drives. Bradley had five receptions for a HOF game record 131 yards.

"Either you fall under the pressure or you rise to the occasion," Bradley said. "We've got great leadership that won't let us fail as long as we keep working at it."

Orton rebounded from an awful interception to guide Chicago to a pair of late touchdowns. Jason Glenn's 26-yard touchdown gave the Dolphins a 24-13 lead.

"It was a lot of fun to get out there and really bounce back after that bad ball," he said. "I walked to the sideline and the first thing I said was I've got to bounce back, get back out there and keep throwing."

The fourth-round draft pick from Purdue connected with Carl Ford for a 43-yard score with 7:23 remaining. After Olindo Mare was short on a 54-yard field goal try, Orton guided Chicago 56 yards, keyed by a 34-yard bullet to Eddie Berlin and a third-down interference penalty by Miami's Deandre Eiland.

Zack Abron ran it in from the 4, disappointing all the Dolphins fans wearing No. 13 jerseys in the crowd of 22,292.

Orton's strong outing - 7-for-11 for 175 yards - spoiled the debut of Nick Saban as an NFL coach and Williams' return to the Miami lineup after he sat out last season with a premature retirement.

He's back, but you could barely tell after this game.

"It's funny that people say welcome back when I haven't gone anywhere," said the former NFL rushing king who will sit out the first four games of the regular season for violating the league's substance abuse policy. "It doesn't seem like I was gone at all, not even a week.

"I didn't feel rusty. I didn't expect anything, to be honest. I was like always when I play, it takes me a while to get warmed up. But I was seeing everything good and I felt good."

Saban, who left LSU after a highly successful career in college to rebuild the Dolphins, almost got a win in his first preseason game as a pro head coach. Miami led thanks to a couple of scoring drives in the second quarter and one in the third.

Gus Frerotte, who replaced A.J. Feeley late in the opening period when Feeley sustained a contusion of the buttocks, threw to Bryan Gilmore at the goal line. Gilmore had to turn almost completely around to snag the pass, falling into the end zone for a 2-yard touchdown.

"It's funny," Frerotte said. "I wasn't really throwing to him. It just kind of slipped off my hand and floated that way and he made a great catch."

That made it 10-7 - Mare had a 33-yard field goal earlier in the quarter.

It became 17-7 when Sage Rosenfels connected with Jason Rader on a 1-yard pass in the third period. Nick Novak kicked a 22-yard field goal, and Doug Brien made a 30-yarder to lift Chicago within 17-13 before Glenn's interception TD.

Orton came back with a beautiful 43-yard spiral to Ford, and then put together the winning drive.

Another rookie QB, the Dolphins' Brock Berlin, marched his team to the 15 before being intercepted in the end zone by Jerrell Pippens in the final moments.

With the play of Bradley and Orton, the Bears didn't miss running back Cedric Benson, their first-rounder who is holding out. And Chicago got a nice effort from its starting offense and defense in the first period. Thomas Jones rushed for 47 yards on 10 carries, with a 1-yard TD run. That was set up by a 34-yard pass from Rex Grossman to Muhsin Muhammad, the prize free agent receiver the Bears signed in the offseason.

"I think this offense fits our personnel," Jones said, "because we're a hard-nosed offense. I thought we were pretty efficient."

Especially at the end.