Takeaways from a sorta-off week for an 8-3, NFC North-leading Bears team ...
Harrison Smith’s unnecessary-roughness infraction in the Bears-Minnesota game two weeks ago cost the Vikings safety a fine of $10,026. It cost the Bears their starting quarterback, Mitchell Trubisky, for one game — the Thanksgiving Day win over the Detroit Lions. It could cost the Bears the services of Trubisky for next Sunday’s game in New York against the Giants unless his injured right/throwing shoulder recovers sufficiently from the Smith hit.
It indirectly could cost the Bears backup quarterback Chase Daniel after this season is over.