The 2-7 Chicago Bears will play the 1-7 Carolina Panthers at Soldier Field in a Week 10 matchup. Here’s what it’s essential know earlier than kickoff (7:15 p.m., Prime Video, FOX-Ch. 32).
Still time to show he’s the QB of the long run?
Perhaps if the Bears weren’t within the Thursday evening nationwide tv slot for the second time in 5 weeks, Justin Fields would have been capable of give it a go in opposition to the Panthers.
But coach Matt Eberflus introduced undrafted rookie Tyson Bagent will make his fourth consecutive begin, saying Fields isn’t medically cleared to return from a dislocated proper thumb after one other restricted observe session Wednesday.
It’s a stable guess Fields will return for the Nov. 19 NFC North recreation at Ford Field in opposition to the Lions. At that time seven video games will stay in a season that started with intense give attention to whether or not the previous first-round choose is certainly the franchise’s quarterback of the long run.
It’s wanting more and more unlikely the Bears will experience with Fields into 2024 and past, and it’s unlucky the thumb harm has price him a month to offer proof on the contrary. Read extra right here.
Brisker able to ‘fly around’ on protection
Jaquan Brisker was pushing to return from a concussion, his second in two seasons, Sunday in New Orleans however mentioned the Bears and the medical doctors concerned needed to err on the aspect of warning.
Now, after lacking two video games, the sturdy security is about to start out tonight. It will present a glimpse of the protection we haven’t seen a lot this season.
Brisker and free security Eddie Jackson have been on the sector collectively for what quantities to about 1 1/2 video games this season — the opener in opposition to the Green Bay Packers and small parts of the Week 2 loss at Tampa Bay and the Week 6 loss to the Vikings. That’s it.
With the secondary rounding again into form, the Bears must hope they will change a problematic pattern. Read extra right here.
QBs can cry in the event that they need to
Quarterback Caleb Williams — a previous Heisman Trophy winner and projected 2024 NFL draft first-round choose — handed for 312 yards and three touchdowns for USC in a 52-42 loss to Washington.
He was strip-sacked late within the second quarter and three performs later, the Huskies went up 35-28 earlier than the half. It was the fifth time within the final six video games the Trojans protection gave up no less than 40 factors.
After the sport, Williams, 21, was proven sitting on a railing within the stands and embracing his mom along with his face lined by a poster. He was visibly overcome by emotion, seemingly from the frustration of seeing his convention championship hopes dissipate regardless of his personal greatest efforts. As he cried in his mom’s arms, the nationwide broadcast cameras stayed there for a minute as ABC announcers Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit, in tones appropriate for the scenario, supplied context to what Williams could possibly be feeling. Read extra right here.
Catch up on all our protection earlier than kickoff
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Source: www.bostonherald.com