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Chicago Bears Injury Report: One Potential Starter Ruled Out

Gene Chamberlain

Only one player who would have started is out this week for the Bears and they have only two on the injury report to face the Lions.
Only one player who would have started is out this week for the Bears and they have only two on the injury report to face the Lions. / Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images
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The only potential starter slate to miss the Thanksgiving Day game for the Bears is safety Elijah Hicks.

Hicks has an ankle injury and has been declared out for the second straight game. Jonathan Owens replaced him last week and played the full game. He'll be their likely starter.

The rest of the Bears injury report is almost clean. The only other player on it is guard Ryan Bates and he remains in the concussion protocol and out even though he was said to have been able to practice Monday and Tuesday if the Bears held practice instead of a walk-through.

No other players are on the injury report and they'll have their offensive line intact for the second straight week after a game when they had no one on the line who scored worse than a 71.1 Pro Football Focus pass blocking grade.

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GENE CHAMBERLAIN

BearDigest.com publisher Gene Chamberlain has covered the Chicago Bears full time as a beat writer since 1994 and prior to this on a part-time basis for 10 years. He covered the Bears as a beat writer for Suburban Chicago Newspapers, the Daily Southtown, Copley News Service and has been a contributor for the Daily Herald, the Associated Press, Bear Report, CBS Sports.com and The Sporting News. He also has worked a prep sports writer for Tribune Newspapers and Sun-Times newspapers.