The Bears and Colts will be practicing together for the next couple of days, which means we could see more fighting like we saw from the Cowboys and Rams on Tuesday if things get overly heated during the session.
Should that happen, one thing the Bears won’t have to worry about is wide receiver Alshon Jeffery finding himself in Dez Bryant’s shoes by winding up on the receiving end of a punch to the face from a Colts defender. A calf injury kept Jeffery from playing in Chicago’s preseason opener and General Manager Ryan Pace said that the wideout will be on the sideline again this week, although he added that the team isn’t worried about a long absence.
“He has a mild calf strain,” Pace said, via ESPNChicago.com. “He’s not going to participate versus Indianapolis. But this isn’t a long-term injury with Alshon,” Pace said. “We don’t anticipate that [he’ll] miss the Green Bay game.”
With Kevin White out for at least the first six weeks of the season and possibly the entire year, the Bears aren’t going to take any unnecessary risks with Jeffery in August because the prospect of their offense without both wideouts is an ugly one.