{"id":46715,"date":"2025-05-13T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/46715\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:22:12","slug":"where-shemar-turner-will-line-up-on-bears-defensive-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/46715\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Shemar Turner will line up on Bears defensive line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bears<\/a> landed some potential impact rookies in the 2025 NFL draft, and second-round defensive tackle Shemar Turner might be one of the biggest sleepers in Chicago&#8217;s draft class.<\/p>\n<p>Turner is a versatile defensive lineman who&#8217;s played both defensive tackle and defensive end, which raised questions about where Chicago could line him up. Turner said he&#8217;s willing to play wherever the Bears line him up, but defensive coordinator Dennis Allen said the plan is for Turner to play inside.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first thing we got to do is we got to play him in at defensive tackle and let him learn there, let him develop there, both as a three-technique and a nose, and then we\u2019ll worry about trying to see that flexibility,\u201d Allen said. \u201cFrom a skill set standpoint, yeah, he\u2019s got some flexibility. We\u2019ll just have to see what he can learn, how quickly he can learn and adapt to what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allen praised Turner for his athleticism, explosion and power, where he noted that the second-round rookie has &#8220;got the right temperament for what we&#8217;re looking for.&#8221; As for how the Bears will bring Turner along, Allen explained it a metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ll have to put the saddle on him and break him a little bit but we\u2019d rather have to pull the reins back rather than have to whip him to get him to go,\u201d Allen said. \u201cWe\u2019re excited about working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Follow Bears Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheBearsWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheBearsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bearswireusat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bears Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bears\/2025\/05\/13\/bears-dennis-allen-shemar-turner-line-up-defensive-tackle\/83586649007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Where Shemar Turner will line up on Bears defensive line;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Where Shemar Turner will line up on Bears defensive line<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears landed some potential impact rookies in the 2025 NFL draft, and second-round defensive tackle Shemar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2493,3126,2793,8897,7,6,1163],"class_list":{"0":"post-46715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-chicagobears","12":"tag-defensive-lineman","13":"tag-defensive-tackle","14":"tag-dennis-allen","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-shemar-turner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114500504682026041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715","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=46715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}