The Chicago Bears will finish this game without one of their top defenders.
Cornerback Kyler Gordon has been ruled out due to a hamstring injury. This is the second game-ending injury a Bears player has sustained. In case you missed it, long-snapper Scott Daly is out because of a knee injury. The Daly injury has pressed tight end Cole Kmet into long-snapping duties. No, really. That is a thing that is happening right now.
As for Gordon, he left during the third quarter of the Bears’ game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London. Gordon was then taken to the locker room and has since been ruled out. That the Bears have already ruled Gordon out for the game suggests that this is a serious hamstring injury. Hopefully, it will not keep him out for too long. But he is going to miss the rest of this one.
Who is left in the Bears secondary?
The Bears were already without a pair of defensive backs with safety Jaquan Brisker and cornerback Tyrique Stevenson out of action. With Gordon down, Chicago’s football team is fielding a secondary featuring Jaylon Johnson, Kevin Byard, Elijah Hicks, Josh Blackwell, Jaylon Jones, Jonathan Owens, Tarvarius Moore, and Ameer Speed. This group needs to patch it together in order for the Bears to hold onto what is now a 21-10 lead with less than two minutes to go in the third quarter.