How Bears’ wide receiver trio is already showcasing deadly potential in training camp

How Bears’ wide receiver trio is already showcasing deadly potential in training camp originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — The Bears’ offense is behind the defense to start training camp, but the possibilities of what it can one day become is clear.

“It’s scary. It’s scary,” tight end Gerald Everett said Thursday after practice. “I’m sure you guys have seen it. Even today we gave the defense something to look at, something they probably weren’t ready for, but like I said being interchangeable even with DJ and Keenan and the guys in the receiving room. We’re going to want to play all of the spots. Whether it be right direction or left direction, we’re all going to be flying up and down the field.”

With DJ Moore, Keenan Allen, and Rome Odunze, the Bears have perhaps the most lethal wide receiver trio in the league. It’s a trio that is already flashing its deadly potential in camp with rookie quarterback Caleb Williams.

“Keenan’s a magician,” cornerback Tyrique Stevenson said Thursday. “Just the fact that he can stop mid-route, change his whole route, or just the fact that he gives you something different than what you’re expecting. He might break in side, but he’s just doing that just to see on the next play how he can get you on a route that’s coming to him. DJ’s just going to be DJ. DJ gonna run a route and you’re not gonna stop it, pretty much.”

As for Odunze, he has been one of the early stars in camp. While he enters as the wide receiver on the depth chart, the Bears expect the No. 9 overall pick to be much more than third fiddle to Allen and Moore.

“I really believe that he’s going to have the ability to take off, because of the other players,” head coach Matt Eberflus said of Odunze at the end of OTAs. “You’re not going to be able to home in on one guy. Say we just had him, and he was the number one right now. You’d be like, ‘Wow, they can really do some things to him defensively’. But you’re not going to be able…

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Publish date : 2024-07-25 19:47:02

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