Rome Odunze missed five games last season with a left foot injury and was hampered by it in others. So, the Bears wide receiver\u2019s answer to a question about whether his foot felt normal again had to set off alarms in Chicago.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not from a standpoint that I\u2019m like always in pain, but the way my foot broke, there\u2019s calluses in there that creates a different type of foot structure with those bones \u2014 different things that kind of shifts things around,\u201d Odunze said Wednesday, via Jay Cohen of the Associated Press. \u201cSo my new normal<\/a> was kind of what I am going into. And I don\u2019t think that\u2019s anything that\u2019s going to prohibit me or keep me from making plays.\u201d<\/p>\n The Bears traded veteran wide receiver DJ Moore to Buffalo this offseason, creating a bigger need for Odunze to remain healthy and productive. Odunze made 54 catches for 734 yards and three touchdowns as a rookie before 44 receptions for 661 yards and six touchdowns last season.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, I just want to be the best receiver possible for this team,\u201d Odunze said. \u201cI feel like I provide many assets to do that, and I\u2019m comfortable with a lot of the target share, as well as the other guys getting involved so we can be the best offense possible.\u201d<\/p>\n Most of Odunze\u2019s production came in the first four games of last season, before his foot injury, when he had 20 receptions for 296 yards and five touchdowns in the first four games.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was tough,\u201d Odunze said of his injury. \u201cObviously, I was gearing up for a great season. I felt like I was on track to have that, and injuries are part of the game. Unfortunately, I feel like it affected me more than injuries have in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rome Odunze missed five games last season with a left foot injury and was hampered by it in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-683513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683513","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=683513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}