{"id":240550,"date":"2025-10-25T20:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240550\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:09:08","slug":"bears-place-cb-gordon-ot-jones-on-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240550\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears place CB Gordon, OT Jones on injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Courtney CroninOct 26, 2025, 06:54 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Courtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota Vikings before switching to the Chicago Bears in 2022. Courtney is a frequent panelist on Around the Horn and host of Best Week Ever and GameNight on ESPN Radio. She also co-hosts The Chicago Bears Podcast on ESPN 1000. She previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News as a multimedia sports journalist.<\/p>\n

BALTIMORE — The Chicago Bears<\/a> placed cornerback Kyler Gordon<\/a> and offensive tackle Braxton Jones<\/a> on injured reserve on Saturday. Both players will be sidelined for a minimum of four games and are eligible to return ahead of Chicago’s Week 12 matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both players were ruled out on the team’s final injury report. Gordon, who missed Chicago’s first four games with a hamstring injury, showed up on the injury report on Thursday with groin and calf injuries. He was listed as limited on Thursday after being a full participant in practice on Wednesday. He did not practice on Friday.<\/p>\n

Jones, who was replaced as the Bears’ starting left tackle in Week 6, has a knee injury. The former fifth round pick was benched before halftime of Chicago’s win against Las Vegas and was replaced by Theo Benedet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Gordon’s injury is a significant blow to an already banged up secondary. The Bears have been without Pro Bowl cornerback Jaylon Johnson<\/a> (core muscle) since a Week 2 loss at Detroit and will also not have cornerback Tyrique Stevenson<\/a> (shoulder) in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

Gordon totaled six tackles and one sack played in two games this season. He signed a three-year, $40 million contract extension in March.<\/p>\n

The Bears also elevated tight end Stephen Carlson<\/a> to the active roster on Saturday, a move that coincides with Cole Kmet<\/a>‘s absence due to a back injury. Kmet was ruled out for the Ravens game and will miss his first NFL game since the Bears drafted him in 2020.<\/p>\n

Defensive end Austin Booker<\/a>, who has been a full participant in practice since returning from a knee injury that landed him on injured reserve for Chicago’s first four games, was also ruled out on Saturday. The Bears have Oct. 28 to activate Booker to the 53-man roster, or he will be required to stay on IR for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtney CroninOct 26, 2025, 06:54 AM CloseCourtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota Vikings before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-240550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}