The Chicago Bears were back at Halas Hall for their second practice of training camp on Thursday morning. While it was another light workout to open the summer, there were still plenty of notable headlines and standouts.
Wednesday’s workout was a rough one for the offense, but it sounds like Thursday’s was just as bad, if not worse. Head coach Ben Johnson mentioned Tuesday that it’s going to be an up-and-down process during training camp, and Thursday certainly sounded like it was a struggle at times. There were also some updates at position battles and injuries to key rookies.
Let’s recap Day 2 of Bears training camp:
What we learned
Standouts
Injury updates
The Bears don’t have a long injury report at this point of training camp, but rookie wide receiver Luther Burden III was a surprising addition on Day 1. The expectation was he was recovered from the soft tissue injury suffered during rookie minicamp — which forced him to miss OTAs and minicamp — but that’s not the case. Head coach Ben Johnson provided an update before Thursday’s practice noting that Burden is day-to-day with his soft tissue injury, which is believed to be a hamstring. But the good news is that it doesn’t sound like anything serious. Elsewhere, rookie defensive tackle Shemar Turner injured his ankle during Wednesday’s practice and didn’t participate Thursday. Rookie cornerback Zah Frazier was excused from practice for personal reasons.
Highlights
Press conferences
What’s next
The Bears return to the practice field on Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. CT for their third of four consecutive practices to open camp. It marks the first official open practice of the summer, where fans will be out in Halas Hall at full force.
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Reporting by Alyssa Barbieri, Bears Wire / Bears Wire
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