{"id":371986,"date":"2025-12-26T22:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/371986\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T22:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:48:06","slug":"injuries-illness-impacting-bears-defense-ahead-of-sunday-nights-game-vs-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/371986\/","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":2,"featured_media":371987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[177033,349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-371986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-article-injury-update","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}