The Chicago Bears officially kicked off training camp with their first practice on Wednesday morning. While it was a shorter, lighter workout to open the summer, there were still plenty of notable headlines and standouts.
It wasn’t an eventful first day of practice as the Bears conducted a light workout that didn’t even last 90 minutes, but it’s key to ramping up before pads come on next week. There wasn’t a lot of notable takeaways, but there were updates amid position battles at nickel cornerback, left tackle, center and punt returner, as well as some early standouts on offense.
Let’s recap Day 1 of Bears training camp:
What we learned
Standouts
Injury updates
There weren’t any notable or unexpected injury updates. The players previously announced on the non-football injury and physically unable to perform lists were sidelined: linebacker T.J. Edwards, cornerback Kyler Gordon, offensive tackle Ozzy Trapilo, safety Elijah Hicks, linebackers Keyshaun Elliott and Noah Sewell, defensive end Shemar Turner. Defensive end Montez Sweat was placed on the non-football illness list, and he’s expected back soon.
Highlights
Press conferences (Dennis Allen, Caleb Williams, Coby Bryant)
What’s next
The Bears return to the practice field on Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. CT for their second of four consecutive practices to open camp. It’s another closed practice before fans arrive on Friday morning.
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