Week 6 Pre-Gamin’: BEARS vs. Commanders

The Bears are undefeated in primetime home games I’m in attendance for since 2018. Take that for data!

See you at Soldier Field.

Game Info

Washington Commanders (1-4, 4th NFC East) at Chicago Bears (2-3, 3rd NFC North) – Amazon Prime Video and FOX-32 (Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreit, Kaylee Hartung); Westwood One (Ian Eagle, Jason McCourty); Spanish Broadcast (Miguel Gurwitz, Ronaldo Cantu, Mayra Gomez)

Kickoff Time: 7:15 CT
Site:
Soldier Field; Chicago, IL
Referee: Adrian Hill
Odds: BEARS -1, O/U 38 (via DraftKings Sports Book)

Game Thread (Week 6 Preview)

Your game thread is down in the comments, so let’s have some good, clean (safe-for-work) fun. And, hopefully, we can do this for 11 more games (and playoffs!?).

Hype Video

Starting Quarterbacks and Projected Game Stats

Bears: Justin Fields: 13/21, 156 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT; 3 carries, 33 rushing yards

vs.

Commanders: Carson Wentz: 24/38, 265 passing yards, 1 TD, 1 INT; 3 carries, 15 rushing yards

Bears Projected Starters

Offense

•   QB Justin Fields
•   RB David Montgomery
•   WRs Darnell Mooney, Equanimeous St. Brown, Velus Jones Jr.
•   TE Cole Kmet
•   LT Braxton Jones, LG Lucas Patrick, C Sam Mustipher, RG Teven Jenkins, RT Larry Borom

Defense
•   LDE Al-Quadin Muhammad, LDT Angelo Blackson, RDT Justin Jones, RDE Robert Quinn
•   SAM Nicholas Morrow, MIKE Joe Thomas, WILL Roquan Smith
•   LCB Kindle Vildor, RCB Jaylon Johnson
•   FS Eddie Jackson, SS Jaquan Brisker

Specialists
•   Cairo Santos (kicker), Trenton Gill (punter, holder), Patrick Scales (long snapper), Velus Jones Jr. (kick and punt returns)

Commanders Projected Starters

Offense

•   QB Carson Wentz
•   RB Antonio Gibson
•   WRs Terry McLaurin, Dyami Brown, Curtis Samuel
•   TE John Bates
•   LT Charles Leno Jr., LG Andrew Norwell, C Nick Martin, RG Saahdiq Charles, RT Cornelius Lucas

Defense

•   LDE James Smith-Williams, LDT Daron Payne, RDT Jonathan Allen, RDE Montez Sweat
•   WLB David Mayo, MLB Cole Holcomb, SLB Jamin Davis
•   LCB Kendall Fuller, RCB Rachad Wildgoose
•   FS Bobby McCain, SS Karmen Curl

Specialists

•   Joey Slye (kicker), Tress Way (punter, holder), Cameron Cheeseman (long snapper), Dax Milne (kick and punt returns)

Game Inactives

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Luis C. Medina, who you can find on Twitter at lcm1986, has been covering the Chicago Bears at Bleacher Nation since 2017. Since then, he has written about 3 head coaches, 5 play-callers, and 11 starting quarterbacks. Previously, Luis wrote about the Cubs and MLB at BN (2015-16) and worked in the Chicago Tribune sports department (2011-16). He also co-hosted a Cubs postgame show, Outside the Ivy, in 2019.

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