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Kyler Gordon stays on PUP as Bears drop to 53 players
The Chicago Bears announced their initial 53-man roster and placed several players on injured reserve or the PUP list, while also releasing and waiving multiple players
Brittain Brown
RB · CHI · 28 yrs · exp 4 · UCLA
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Bears RB Kyle Monangai day-to-day with soft tissue injury
Bears running back Kyle Monangai has been out of practice since the first day of training camp and head coach Ben Johnson gave an update on his condition at a Monday press conference. Johnson said that Monangai is dealing with a soft tissue injury. He said the outlook is day-to-day for the 2025 seventh-round pick’s return to the field and that the belief is that his absence will not be a long-term one. Monangai ran 169 times for 783 yards and five touchdowns during his rookie season. He also caught 18 passes for 164 yards. D’Andre Swift, Roschon Johnson, Brittain Brown, Salvon Ahmed, and Coleman Bennett are the other running backs in Bears camp
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Kyle Monangai Missing Another Practice on Saturday
Chicago Bears running back Kyle Monangai is missing his second consecutive training camp practice for undisclosed reasons. Salvon Ahmed has stepped into RB2 duties in his absence, with Roschon Johnson and Brittain Brown also in contention if Monangai misses more time. Monangai is expected to resume his RB2 role when healthy, but his fantasy upside is limited to RB3/flex due to pass-catching limitations
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Training Camp Battle: RB3: Roschon Johnson vs Brittain Brown
As we move forward with our training camp battle series, we move to the offensive side of the ball, where we have an interesting development at running back. We know what the top of the Bears running back room is going to look like. D’Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai are going to be splitting the carries. As long as the two of them remain healthy, there will be very little room for any other running backs to get any carries on this offense. But we are all football fans; we understand the running back position. It carries a physical pounding, and running backs are constantly getting nicked up. Swift has stayed relatively healthy throughout his career, but he’s only had one season out of six in which he played in every game. Who will be the running back looking to fill the gap if Swift or Monangai goes down? That’s anybody’s guess. If you had asked me that question a year ago, I would have said Roschon Johnson without hesitation. But that doesn’t necessarily seem like the right answer. Johnson’s career has largely derailed. After a solid rookie campaign where Johnson had over 500 yards from scrimmage and averaged about 5 yards a touch, in his second season, he became a short-yardage back, averaging less than 3 yards a carry. Last season, he had a hard time staying healthy. He did manage to play seven games, but that was largely on special teams. In those seven games in Ben Johnson’s offense, Roschon had just two carries for the entire season. The running back with the third most carries on the team happened to be Brittain Brown (with a whopping five). Those five carries are all of Brown’s career regular-season NFL carries. Some of you might be saying, sure, but he’s young; he has a chance to get more opportunities this year. What if I told you Brittain Brown turns 29 years old this October? Brown spent six years in college, and then largely spent three years on the Raiders and Seahawks practice squads before coming over to the Bears last year. Brown may be a decent backup this year, but he’s not a prospect. In fact, he’s more than three years older than Roschon Johnson. The biggest surprise, in my eyes, about this training camp battle is that these are the only two running backs involved in the training camp battle. I fully expected the Bears to sign a cheap veteran running back into the room this past offseason, but they chose not to do it. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t expecting anything flashy, but I was expecting a vet-minimum type signing or a one-year, $2 million signing as they did with D’Onta Foreman a few years ago. But Ben Johnson and Ryan Poles chose to roll with the guys they have. Clearly, they expect Swift and Monangai to get 95% of the running back carries, and that there was just no need for any money to be invested into an RB3, but if one of them gets hurt, in my eyes, neither back has the makeup to go out there and give the Bears 25 rushing attempts per game for 3 or 4 consecutive games. The RB3 competition consists of a career practice squad player against a fourth-round pick entering the final year of his contract, who appears to have fallen out of favor with this coaching staff. There’s a good chance the Bears only keep three running backs on the 53-man roster. Johnson does contribute quite a bit on special teams, but also appears to offer very little offensively in Ben Johnson’s eyes. Brown offers far less on special teams. Brown had just 17 special teams snaps in his three games. Johnson had 102 in seven. How does this one play out? I think Johnson makes the 53-man roster as a special teams player and only plays running back if the team is forced to use him there. I expect Brown to safely slide to the practice squad. If there’s an injury to Swift or Monangai and they are forced to miss a game or more, I expect the Bears to elevate Brown to the 53-man roster as the team’s RB2, and Brown would get the carries over Johnson. So while I think Johnson earns the roster spot, I think Brown wins the compet [... truncated ...]
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Bears sign former Dolphins and Colts RB Salvon Ahmed
The Bears have signed veteran running back Salvon Ahmed, Jordan Schultz reported on Wednesday. Ahmed, 27, entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent signing by the 49ers in 2020. He was waived in August of that year and got claimed by the Dolphins, starting the year off on the practice squad and eventually earning a promotion to the 53-man roster. As a rookie, he ran for 319 rushing yards and three touchdowns on 75 carries for an average of 4.3 yards per carry. After a productive 2020, Ahmed spent the next three seasons as a backup running back for the Dolphins. On a small sample size, he was most efficient with 0.271 EPA per carry in 2022, per PFSN’s NFL HQ . After being released in 2024, he spent a week on the Broncos ’ practice squad before he released from there, as well. The Colts brought him onto their practice squad, where he spent the remainder of 2024 before signing a futures contract at the end of the year. Heading into 2025, Ahmed suffered a season-ending ankle injury due to a hip drop tackle in training camp. He projects as a competitor for a spot on the 53-man roster. The Bears kept four running backs on their roster in 2025, and Travis Homer is no longer on the team. He’ll compete with Roschon Johnson for their third-string running back spot, but he’s likely more of a competitor for the fourth-string spot with Brittain Brown , Deion Hankins, and Coleman Bennett
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Roschon Johnson Won't Play Against Steelers in Week 12
Chicago Bears running back Roschon Johnson (thumb) missed two consecutive practices and has been ruled out for Sunday's Week 12 contest against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Johnson was added to the injury report on Thursday and hasn't been able to get on the field since. The extent of his injury is unknown, but it won't have major ramifications in fantasy football anyway. He has just two carries for 17 yards through seven games this season, remaining buried in a depth role behind veteran D'Andre Swift and rookie Kyle Monangai. Travis Homer (hamstring, knee) has also been ruled out for this week, meaning Chicago may have to activate Brittain Brown from the practice squad to fill the No. 3 running back role
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