No New RB For Bears

The Chicago Bears seem to have recovered well in the running back position despite the fact that tapped backup Kevin Jones suffered a season-ending injury. His departure had some speculating that the Bears would be looking to add another running back before the start of the regular season on Sunday. In an interview with Larry Mayer, general manager Jerry Angelo quickly squelched any such reports.

He said, “It’s unfortunate that we lost Kevin Jones. In all likelihood, we would have only dressed four running backs on Sunday, and that includes [fullback] Jason McKie. So there would have been an odd man out. We do have three backs [in Matt Forte, Garrett Wolfe and Adrian Peterson] who have been here. It’s not like we’re one short. If we need to go out and pick up another back, we have a short list where we can do that. But right now, nobody we would pick up would dress on Sunday. So we’re going to go with the hand that we have and we’re comfortable with, and then we’ll just go from there.”

Both Garrett Wolfe and Adrian Peterson looked good in the preseason, showing that they should do just fine as backups to star Matt Forte. The Bears also have a new threat in Jay Cutler to take some pressure off of the running back position. See the Bears this season with Chicago Bears tickets from StubHub.

Posted in General on September 10, 2009

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