The Bears persevered to have issues with COVID-19 whilst they readied to play Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
both correct handle Elijah Wilkinson and rookie linebacker Caleb Johnson needed to be positioned on the reserve/COVID-19 checklist on Sunday morning.
Wilkinson had been slated to start as a result of the knee harm to appropriate tackle Germain Ifedi. Johnson became coming off a knee damage and turned into listed questionable for the video game.
they are the fourth and fifth gamers in the firm to go into the NFL COVID-19 protocol in the ultimate two weeks. side rusher Robert Quinn, operating lower back Damien Williams and tight end Jimmy Graham have long gone into it, in addition to extensive receivers teach Mike Furrey.
This might suggest a delivery at appropriate tackle for Alex Bars or might be Lachavious Simmons or Arlington Hambright, the two 2d-year seventh-round picks.
Williams got here off of it on Saturday and may be attainable to face the Buccaneers.
Johnson has been worried in 5 video games and 73 performs this season, all on special groups.
Nagy on Friday observed he did not feel there became a plague difficulty in the crew regardless of the entire cases, and now they are in more desirable position to cope with the challenge than closing 12 months when there became a mid-season difficulty with instances.
"I believe there become lots of unknown; I think like there may be greater popular now," he observed. "And so for us or not it's only a remember of now it be making sure that we're doing everything that we will to stress the mask, to stress taking care of your self, to emphasize who you are around, who you might be not round, all of that stuff so that you limit these chances and those hazards.
"sometimes you comprehend as you move through this you don't know where, when or how. but it is part of it."
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