"The Chicago Bears will be without two of their top wide receivers when they host the Green Bay Packers on Saturday night. Rome Odunze (foot) and Luther Burden III (ankle) were ruled out on the Bears' final injury report Thursday after not participating in either of Chicago's last two practices. It will be Odunze's third straight game missed due to the recurring foot injury he has been dealing with since late October. He was ruled out ahead of the Bears' first meeting with the Packers on Dec. 7 and was a late scratch last Sunday against the Cleveland Browns."
""We're going to do what's best for Rome first and foremost," Johnson said. "I know he wants to be out there and helping. It's hard to tell him no sometimes. He just wants to be out on the field competing and contributing and helping our team win. So there may be a case where we have to protect him from himself a little bit and just make sure we get him right and he'll be able to help us down the road.""
Two of Chicago's leading wide receivers, Rome Odunze (foot) and Luther Burden III (ankle), were ruled out on the final injury report after missing the team's last two practices. Odunze will miss a third consecutive game because of a recurring foot injury that began in late October; he was previously ruled out for the Dec. 7 meeting and was a late scratch last Sunday. Coach Ben Johnson said all options are on the table and emphasized protecting Odunze to ensure he can help the team later. Burden left the Browns game with an ankle injury but finished with six catches for 84 yards. DJ Moore scored two touchdowns against Cleveland and could see an increased workload with those receivers out.
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