Jordan McFadden

Ben talked about a couple of options they would have.

Otherwise, Jordan McFadden, who's also been inactive every game this season, like Trapillo.

McFadden was a left tackle in college earlier in his career when he was with the Chargers.

Played a little bit at left tackle.

Could you move Joe Thuney to right tackle? Maybe, I suppose.

Or we have seen their backup guard, Jordan McFadden, they used him at tackle in practice last year, so they could put McFadden at either tackle spot and make him the swing tackle.

But he's not played regular season snaps in the offensive tackle position before, and he has been a healthy scratch on game day all season.

They have not made him active on game day.

So that, that to me, th- this all sounds like their emergency plan, right? Emergency plan is like, "Okay, we got a bunch of injuries, and we gotta move Tuney to left tackle," but I don't think they're gonna go into Sunday saying, "Hey, our plan A here is that Joe Tuney's our backup plan at offensive tackle." I, I don't think that's likely.

I think the most likely thing is that Ozzy Trapillo is your backup offensive tackle, or maybe he starts and Theo's your backup offensive tackle, but most likely is that Ozzy Trapillo is healthy and active, suited up on game day, ready to play if the Bears need him.

Then slightly less likely is, oh, they call up the guy from the practice squad who is super raw and inexperienced and brand new to the team, and then less likely there is that they move Tuney or Jordan McFadden.

I just think if they thought Braxton Jones is gonna be out, like it looks like, and if they thought Ozzy wouldn't be good to go, they would've signed a veteran offensive tackle, or signed an offensive tackle off of somebody else's practice squad, or at the very least, added another offensive tackle to their practice squad to have somebody else in the building getting up to speed that they could then, in theory, promote on Sunday, that they might trust more than the aforementioned Christian Jones, who I had never heard of until he came onto the Bears practice squad, and I still can't tell you I know very much about in his career.

Sure.

No, not Jordan McFadden.

Is it Jordan? Yeah, I think he mentioned McFadden.

I think he mentioned Jordan McFadden in the press conference.

Listen, man.

And he also said that they've thrown Tooney out there and left tackle as well.

Theo Bennett is going to start.

And then after that, right, like these are the things that they're paid to.

So if something happens at left tackle with Theo Benedet, then we probably would get the nuclear option of old Joe Tooney moving over to left tackle, and I don't know who else is going to be active on that offensive line.

Is Jordan McFadden going to activate him? So that is something to watch, like the backup part of that, who's active and who's inactive, all of which we will cover on Bears Pre.

From the Sports Corner in Ridleyville with Olin Krutz and Patrick Manley starting at 9 a.m. Layla might even be there.

Maybe.

So if there is something, if something happens at left tackle with Theo Benedett, then we probably would get the nuclear option of Ol' Joe Thuney moving over to left tackle, and I don't know who else is gonna be active on that offensive line.

Is Jordan McFadden g- Are they gonna activate him? So that is something to watch, like, the backup part of that.

Who's active and who's inactive? All of which we will cover on Bears Pre from the sports corner in Wrigleyville with Olon Crewd and Patrick Manley, starting at 9:00 AM.

Layla might even be there, maybe.

He said, listen, we've got options.

Jordan McFadden could play.

Um, at that point you've obviously Joe Thune, um, has played that swing tag or play tackle before.

So, um,

So those are two big parts of, one, this Bears offense, and Braxton Jones has been platooning with Theo Benedet at that left side.

But what will it look like this week with Braxton Jones still not practicing? Is it just Theo Benedet's job? Are you planning on using Jordan McFadden? That was somebody that, uh, Ben Johnson had brought up.

Limited, though, in practice, you have Cam Lewis with a hip, Noah Sewell with an Achilles, and Jamar Turner with a knee.

And then full, you have Kyler Gordon with a calf and Jonah Jackson with a personal.