{"id":133882,"date":"2025-08-10T08:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133882\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T08:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:25:21","slug":"report-chicago-bears-to-sign-running-back-brittain-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133882\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Chicago Bears to sign running back Brittain Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Saturday morning, the Chicago Bears brought four running backs into Halas Hall for a tryout, and now, per a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mzenitz\/status\/1954352113112514743\" rel=\"nofollow\">CBS Sports\u2019 Matt Zenitz<\/a>, they are expected to sign 27-year-old Brittain Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brown played his college ball at Duke (2016-2019) and UCLA (2020-2022), compiling 2,284 rushing yards (5.8 ypc) with 21 touchdowns and catching 41 passes for 431 yards and two TDs. He was a seventh-round pick of the Las Vegas Raiders in \u201822, and as a rookie, he played in six games, amassing 61 special teams snaps. He was waived\/injured the following offseason, and then in 2024, he had a couple of stints on the practice squad of the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 6\u20191\u201d, 205-pound Brown was a physical runner in college, but a lack of wiggle and straight-line speed likely pushed him down draft boards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Chicago\u2019s current running back room consists of D\u2019Andre Swift, Roschon Johnson, Travis Homer, Ian Wheeler, and rookies Kyle Monangai and Deion Hankins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Johnson was held out of Thursday\u2019s practice with a foot injury, but the severity was not revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Bears have yet to announce the transaction, and when they do, it\u2019ll come wth a corresponding roster move, which we\u2019ll share here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday morning, the Chicago Bears brought four running backs into Halas Hall for a tryout, and now,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,80976,80977,43645,43644,37272,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-133882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-bears-preseason","10":"tag-chicago-bears-rumors","11":"tag-chicago-bears-depth-chart","12":"tag-chicago-bears-free-agency","13":"tag-chicago-bears-news","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115003518174056219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}