NFL Insider Tom Pelissero: How Injuries Could Impact Packers-Bears in Week 16 | The Rich Eisen Show

NFL Insider Tom Pelissero: How Injuries Could Impact Packers-Bears in Week 16 | The Rich Eisen Show

What should I be looking at for this weekend? I mean, massive games, Bears and Packers first up. What am I What am I looking forward uh what what’s in your notebook? I’ll just give you the floor here. >> Yeah, key injuries in both for both those teams in the Bears Packers game for Chicago. Uh Roma Dun has been dealing with that stress fracture in his foot. Missed the game. Tried to go last week, then aggravates it in warm-ups. Out again this week. Luther Burton’s out also out again this week. A player that was coming on. So DJ Moore has kind of been a forgotten man in that offense. made a big play on the touchdown. Obviously, that wild still, you know, unfathomable how Caleb Williams make that throw last week. He’s going to be a big part of this against Green Bay. DeAndre Swift is questionable. DeAndre Swift is questionable almost every week. At this point, I don’t have reason to believe that he’s not going to play, but certainly something to monitor. And then for the Packers, I mean, this is like an old school Patriots injury report where half the team is listed as questionable uh right now with Christian Watson. He went down with what looked like a really concerning injury. My first thought, and I know the first thought of some of the Packers uh personnel as well, was it looked like he broke his collar bone. It wasn’t that. Um he went to the hospital as precaution, but he was able to practice on a limited basis. Matt Laflur said that he’s encouraged. They’re going to give Watson up until game time. That’s probably going to be a game day decision. And then Josh Jacobs, this is also a true game day type of a decision. Josh Jacobs, Rich, has been dealing with significant injuries for well over a month now. Initially, it was a thigh contusion as well as a bone bruise in his knee. My understanding is the knee is the issue at this point. Um, it is a a bone bruise. He got hit on that knee again last week. He was going to be on a pitch count anyway against the Broncos. That’s why he only got 12 carries. When you get hurt on a knee that’s got swelling, it’s got fluid, the edema, um, that hurts a lot. Josh Jacobs, my understanding is he was on crutches on Monday. Wow. >> And this is a guy who still wants to play and says if it’s up to him, he’s going to be out there on Saturday. It does sound like he’s got a chance. Um, you know, they may put him through some type of workout, whether it’s in the morning, uh, or closer to kickoff here. The Packers historically have been really conservative medically. They held him out of a game. Josh Jacobs a few weeks ago against the Vikings, a game that he would have liked to play in, but they’re just they’re trying to get the knee to calm down. It’s not an injury that’s going to fully heal or not be an issue until he can rest for a long period of time. That is not Josh Jacobs mindset. You’ve got playoff spot potentially at stake, potentially the NFC North, even the number one seed at stake um in this game. Josh is going to want to go. We’ll see if the team ends up letting him go in that game. If anybody’s going to go from crutches on a Monday to on the field in uniform, prime time on a Saturday, it’s Josh Jacobs. But everybody, including the medical staff, is going to be involved in that final decision. >> Yeah. Three college football games tomorrow. And then you also got Eagles Commanders first up at 5 Eastern, then at 8:20 Eastern. My gosh. Packers at Bears. Packers trying to sweep the Bears. Bears have their eye maybe on that one seed certainly at top the NFC North. Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. Check us out every single day streaming live on Disney Plus and the ESPN app 12 to 3 Eastern.

NFL Insider Tom Pelissero tells Rich Eisen how key injuries could impact the Chicago Bears & Green Bay Packers key NFC North showdown this weekend.

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