On Saturday, the Chicago Bears elevated linebacker Joe Thomas from their practice squad to play in Sunday’s game against the Houston Texans.
With linebacker Matt Adams and safety Dane Cruikshank already ruled out with injuries (and Roquan Smith questionable), the Bears need some depth tomorrow with special teams’ experience, and the 31-year-old Thomas has extensive work in the third phase at every stop in his NFL journey.
But more interesting to me is who the Bears didn’t bring up.
The last two weeks, the Bears elevated center Dieter Eiselen from the practice squad to backup Sam Mustipher, but with him not being promoted this week, that tells me that Lucas Patrick, who had his cast removed, is probably going to take over at center.