{"id":347995,"date":"2025-12-14T18:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347995\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:44:10","slug":"bears-rome-odunze-out-after-aggravating-foot-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347995\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears&#8217; Rome Odunze out after aggravating foot injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> 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 not 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 after aggravating his foot injury during pregame warmups.<\/p>\n<p>Odunze was not listed among the team&#8217;s inactives Sunday but was later announced as out for the game. He had been questionable to play after missing last week&#8217;s loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"06cd3bcf-7a86-53d4-28e7-aa049dd36261\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/gb\/green-bay-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay Packers<\/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 six touchdowns this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears wide receiver Rome Odunze will not play against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday after aggravating his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-347995","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\/347995","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=347995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}