Chicago Bears wide receiver Rome Odunze missed the final five games of the 2025 season due to a stress fracture in his foot, and while he returned for the Wild Card win against the Green Bay Packers, he\u2019s still not healthy.<\/p>\n
Earlier today, the Chicago Sun-Times\u2019 Jason Lieser reported that Odunze said it was \u201ctough\u201d to manage the pain during his 54 snaps against the Packers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was soreness,\u201d Odunze said, \u201cbut at this part of the season, it\u2019s all hands on deck and play through it. I\u2019ll ride it \u2018til the wheels fall off.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unknown exactly how Odunze initially suffered the injury, but following the Week 8 game against the Baltimore Ravens, Odunze missed Wednesday\u2019s practice with a heel injury. The following week, he missed the Wednesday practice due to an ankle\/heel injury. Before Week 11\u2019s game, he missed Wednesday\u2019s practice with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n
He was off the injury report for Week 12 and Week 13 against the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles, but missed the Week 14 game (December 7) against the Packers due to a foot injury. The report of the stress fracture first came out on December 5.<\/p>\n
Odunze was set to return the following week, but suffered a setback in his foot in the pregame warmups before the Cleveland Browns game on December 14, and he didn\u2019t return until the Wild Card game.<\/p>\n
Dr. Mason West, host of our Bear Bones on 2nd City Gridiron, says a stress fracture won\u2019t heal until he\u2019s able to shut it down with no football activity, and it\u2019s generally a six to eight week recovery.<\/p>\n
In the Bears\u2019 win against the Packers, Odunze caught two passes (on six targets) for 44 yards, but one of those was the 27-yard pass on fourth and eight from Caleb Williams.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the Thursday injury report for both the Bears and the Los Angeles Rams ahead of their Divisional playoff game on Sunday. The final game day injury report will be out on Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears wide receiver Rome Odunze missed the final five games of the 2025 season due to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[88341,7769,741,7],"class_list":["post-681889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-chicago-bears-playoffs","tag-chicago-bears-injuries","tag-chicago-bears-news","tag-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115905146617461207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681889","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=681889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}