{"id":297300,"date":"2025-08-18T06:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/297300\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:11:10","slug":"bears-depth-on-both-sides-of-ball-evident-in-preseason-win-over-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/297300\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears&#8217; depth on both sides of ball evident in preseason win over Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a year ago, Wheeler scored two touchdowns against the Bills during a preseason contest in Buffalo, but suffered a knee injury that led to him spending the entire season on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night, he added two more touchdowns against the Bills \u2014 runs of 1 and 10 yards \u2014 and finished the game as the Bears&#8217; leading rusher with 19 carries for 80 yards. Coming off last week against Miami where he reached the end zone, but had the score nullified by a penalty, finding the end zone twice was a great feeling for the second-year running back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It felt vindicating,&#8221; Wheeler said. &#8220;It felt good. For some reason I keep scoring two touchdowns against the Bills, but I&#8217;m not gonna complain about it. I&#8217;m happy for it. i&#8217;m really just pleased with how my teammates performed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a complete team effort \u2014 offense, defense, special teams, O-line, tight ends, receivers \u2014 everyone doing what they&#8217;re supposed to be doing, how they&#8217;re supposed to be doing it. That&#8217;s why the score was like that at the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just over a year ago, Wheeler scored two touchdowns against the Bills during a preseason contest in Buffalo,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[44534,7240,374,443,692,391,2493,7,446,6,27045,25398],"class_list":{"0":"post-297300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-article-bears-breakdown","9":"tag-austin-booker","10":"tag-bears","11":"tag-centerpiece","12":"tag-chicago","13":"tag-chicago-bears","14":"tag-chicagobears","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-luther-burden-iii","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-tyler-scott","19":"tag-tyson-bagent"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115048289939055064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}