Chicago Bears’ Rome Odunze still out of practice with injury

The Chicago Bears are days away from starting their season against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. It remains to be seen if Rome Odunze will play against Carolina after suffering a foot injury last week in practice.

Odunze was the leading receiver for the Bears before he suffered a foot injury last season that caused him to miss the final five regular season games.

Per Adam Jahns of CHGO Bears, head coach Ben Johnson told reporters that Odunze would not practice on Tuesday. Chicago hopes the third-year receiver will play against the Panthers after suffering what the team is calling a day-to-day foot injury. The foot injury is not related to the foot injury from last season.

“Bears coach Ben Johnson said that WR Rome Odunze won’t practice today,” Jahns posted on X. “He’s considered day-to-day with his foot injury — which Johnson said is NOT related to last year’s issue. The hope is that Odunze will play on Sunday against Carolina.”

Chicago Bears won’t have Rome Odunze practice on Tuesday

Last week, Johnson praised Odunze for making a comeback from his injury last season. Johnson believes Odunze will be a key part of the offense this year.

“Mr. Consistency. I know the dialogue about his foot and all that, and yet, you didn’t see any setback from that regard,” Johnson said, via USA Today. “I thought he looked completely healthy. I showed a highlight of him to the team just the other day, cracking one of the safeties in the joint practice and just how that inspires me to not want to get him the football, but I need to get him the football when I see things like that.

“He’s doing all the little things, the things that maybe other people don’t notice, and the coaching staff is very appreciative of [that] because it’s going to help us win games. He’s going to be a key [part] of what we do.”

The Bears won’t want to rush Odunze back too quickly. Chicago tried doing that last year, but he suffered a setback during warmups and had to miss its game against the Cleveland Browns.

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