Bears: Alshon Jeffery held out of practice with knee injury, other starters limited

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The Bears can only hope that this is not how it starts.

Wide receiver Alshon Jeffery, limited in practice with a knee issue on Wednesday, was completely out of practice on Thursday, prompting ominous flashbacks to the 2015 season when Jeffery played barely half of the games with a succession of injuries. It is a situation the Bears are “monitoring,” per coach John Fox.

Jeffery, who has accounted for 45 percent of the Bears receiving yards and 37 percent of all offensive yardage through the first two games, missed all of preseason with a calf injury, played Week 1 and then missed the next four games with a hamstring injury. When this current problem started was unclear, and whether Jeffery returns to practice on Friday looms as significant.

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“Obviously it didn’t go as well from yesterday to today,” Fox said.

Sudden health concerns were not limited to the offense. Defensive lineman Will Sutton, the presumptive next-man-up at nose tackle after the ankle injury to Eddie Goldman, and end/linebacker Willie Young both practiced in full on Wednesday but were limited on Thursday, Sutton with an elbow problem and Young with a knee.

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