{"id":473678,"date":"2025-12-26T22:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/473678\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T22:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:20:14","slug":"injuries-illness-impacting-bears-defense-ahead-of-sunday-nights-game-vs-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/473678\/","title":{"rendered":"Injuries, illness impacting Bears defense ahead of Sunday night&#8217;s game vs. 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the offensive side, the Bears will get back one of their explosive pass catchers in rookie receiver Luther Burden III (ankle), who has no designation for the Sunday&#8217;s game. Burden was injured against the Browns Dec. 14 and missed last week&#8217;s win versus Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being on the sideline is not fun,&#8221; Burden told reporters Friday. &#8220;It&#8217;s good to cheer the guys on, but I want to be out there helping them, going out there and competing and continue to win games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Receiver Rome Odunze (foot) has been ruled out for a fourth straight contest after not practicing all week while rookie offensive lineman Luke Newman (foot) remains on injured reserve, but is questionable for Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the offensive side, the Bears will get back one of their explosive pass catchers in rookie receiver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":334997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[165832,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-473678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-article-injury-update","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115788200355644281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473678","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=473678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}