Earlier today, the unfortunate news broke that David Montgomery left practice with a potentially serious injury. This is incredibly bad news for the Bears, but even more so for the second year player who is looking to improve in his sophomore campaign with increased comfort both with the playbook and with the NFL in general. All around, not good.
This being the NFL however, the season must go on (assuming COVID doesn’t do it in). So. What exactly are the Bears options at running back? I’ll break this down into two sections: Long Term (if Montgomery misses most or all of 2020), and Short Term (if he only only misses a handful of games or less).