There’s short weeks, and then there’s the 84.5 hour turnaround the Bears have while playing the Lions on Thanksgiving after a Sunday night bout with the Vikings. That short week is the main reason the Bears will be without Mitchell Trubisky, as if this NFC North game was played on Sunday, it’s likely the 24-year-old would have featured: bruised shoulder and all.
Nevertheless, the Bears are still the better team on paper, and the Lions themselves are also dealing with their own surplus of injuries in the same manner.
Here’s the Windy City Gridiron staff game picks for Bears-Lions on Thanksgiving.