{"id":345653,"date":"2025-12-13T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/345653\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:01:10","slug":"sources-bears-optimistic-wr-odunze-will-return-vs-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/345653\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Bears optimistic WR Odunze will return vs. Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"19d73366-b5a5-cca2-a176-a2c024ce0bb3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a> are optimistic wide receiver <a data-player-guid=\"774cc71b-e83e-340d-bcda-4a8558265bb5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4431299\/rome-odunze\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rome Odunze<\/a> will play against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"539babc5-e5fb-753b-8ae1-c15032a91ef4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-browns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> on Sunday, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Jeremy Fowler.<\/p>\n<p>Odunze is listed as questionable with a foot injury that forced him to miss the Bears&#8217; 28-21 loss at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/gb\/green-bay-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/story\/_\/page\/viewersguide47256881\/nfl-week-15-picks-predictions-schedule-fantasy-football-odds-injuries-stats-2025\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/r1587668_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Odunze was limited throughout practice this week and has been dealing with nagging foot and heel issues since October. Last week&#8217;s game against the Packers was the first he has missed in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Odunze started appearing on Chicago&#8217;s injury report in October with what was initially classified as a heel injury. The wide receiver said the injury was &#8220;not a simple fix&#8221; but one he would be monitoring along with the Bears&#8217; training staff.<\/p>\n<p>Odunze leads the Bears with 44 catches, 661 receiving yards and 6 touchdowns this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears are optimistic wide receiver Rome Odunze will play against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday, sources&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-345653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345653","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=345653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}