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Eagles Face Bears Without Williams
Confirmed
In Short: The Philadelphia Eagles will play the Chicago Bears on Monday Night Football without Caleb Williams.
The Philadelphia Eagles are set to face the Chicago Bears on Monday Night Football, but the game will be without the presence of Bears quarterback Caleb Williams.
Williams is out with a hamstring injury, leaving the Bears to potentially field either backup Tyson Bagent, who is in concussion protocol, or third-string quarterback Case Keenum.
The Eagles, meanwhile, are looking to remain unbeaten after starting the season with two wins against the Washington Commanders and Tennessee Titans.
Philadelphia's defense could get a boost with the possible return of defensive end Jonathan Greenard, who practiced fully on Friday and is listed as questionable.
Saquon Barkley, who missed much of the Eagles' last game due to a stinger, is off the injury report and expected to play.
The Bears' offensive line has struggled this season, allowing the sixth-highest pressure rate at 41.5% of dropbacks.
Philadelphia's defense has generated pressure on 45.2% of opposing dropbacks, but they have yet to force a takeaway this season.
The Eagles' front seven, featuring players like Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, and Jihaad Campbell, will look to pressure the Bears' quarterback and force a turnover.
The game will air on ESPN at 8:15 p.m. ET, with streamers able to watch via Fubo, which offers a free trial.
Background
Caleb Williams left Sunday's game against the Minnesota Vikings with a hamstring injury, ruling him out for the remainder of the contest.
What's confirmed
- The Philadelphia Eagles are set to face the Chicago Bears on Monday Night Football, but the game will be without the presence of Bears quarterback Caleb Williams.
- Williams is out with a hamstring injury, leaving the Bears to potentially field either backup Tyson Bagent, who is in concussion protocol, or third-string quarterback Case Keenum.
- The Eagles, meanwhile, are looking to remain unbeaten after starting the season with two wins against the Washington Commanders and Tennessee Titans.
- Philadelphia's defense could get a boost with the possible return of defensive end Jonathan Greenard, who practiced fully on Friday and is listed as questionable.
- Saquon Barkley, who missed much of the Eagles' last game due to a stinger, is off the injury report and expected to play.
- The Bears' offensive line has struggled this season, allowing the sixth-highest pressure rate at 41.5% of dropbacks.
- Philadelphia's defense has generated pressure on 45.2% of opposing dropbacks, but they have yet to force a takeaway this season.
- The Eagles' front seven, featuring players like Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, and Jihaad Campbell, will look to pressure the Bears' quarterback and force a turnover.
- The game will air on ESPN at 8:15 p.m. ET, with streamers able to watch via Fubo, which offers a free trial.
What's still developing
- We can start briefly with Caleb Williams, who Ben Johnson has called week-to-week.
- The Philadelphia Eagles are on the road for the second week in a row, this time to take on the Chicago Bears.
- In order to preview this Week 3 Monday Night Football matchup, I reached out to our enemies over at Windy City Gridrion.
- In my experience, week-to-week is Johnson-speak for “he won’t play.” Once he upgrades Caleb Williams to day-to-day, that’s when he has a chance to play.
- That just tends to be how things go for this team, almost no matter who is calling the plays or what the personnel looks like.
- Philadelphia won its second consecutive ugly game last week, prevailing on the road over the Tennessee Titans thanks to a last-second touchdown drive engineered by Jalen Hurts.
- Things have been, as per usual, a little bit choppy and somewhat stunted for the Eagles offensively.
- According to Next Gen Stats, the Eagles pass rush has generated pressure on 45.2% of opposing dropbacks, but doing so on the seventh-lowest blitz rate (24.2%).
- With all that said, Barkley looks to be a factor in this game after he essentially missed the entire game in Week 2 in Nashville.
- The Bears have allowed opposing cowbell backs to have success so far this season.
- The Eagles are hoping they can get more from one of their two start defensive tackles who they paid swimmingly in the offseason.
- Coming off his best season of his career, Davis looks to be a disruptor against Garrett Bradbury who was called for four penalties at center in last week’s loss to Minnesota has received a lot of scrutiny so far this season.