Caleb Williams, Bears have several vital questions to answer during training camp

Caleb Williams, Bears have several vital questions to answer during training camp originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago

Bears rookies reported to Halas Hall for training camp on Tuesday, kicking off a month that will see the offseason winners put under the NFL microscope as they begin a new era.

Quarterback Caleb Williams and wide receiver Rome Odunze both signed their four-year rookie contracts after arriving, setting up a drama-free start to training camp.

While the rookie contract question no longer exists, the Bears still have several unknowns to deal with during the next month.

Here are five questions they need to answer during a highly anticipated training camp that will have the “Hard Knocks” cameras in attendance:

What’s the deal at RG?

During mandatory minicamp, Eberflus said he expects incumbent starting right guard Nate Davis to again man that post this fall.

Davis, however, was a limited participant throughout the offseason program, which caused the Bears to use Matt Pryor and Ryan Bates in that spot with the starting five. When Pryor was filling in for Davis, Bates usually played center. When Bates played right guard, free-agent acquisition Coleman Shelton took the first-team center reps.

It illustrates the depth Poles added during the offseason and the uncertainty that remains on a unit that has had 18 different starting combinations through two seasons of the Eberflus era.

“Yeah, don’t know yet,” Eberflus said when asked how the situation at right guard will resolve itself. “I really don’t know. We’ll see. We’ll see how it goes. I’m just thinking through my head a bunch of multiple combinations. I really don’t know exactly. Sure, we had Bates there. He’s played there. Shelton has played at center, of course. Davis has played there. [Teven Jenkins] has been on the other side. Pryor has been in and been out. The versatility there has certainly been helpful. Ryan did a really good job of having those pieces in there so we…

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Publish date : 2024-07-17 15:54:31

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