The Bears will spend the next two days weighing injured reserve for inside linebacker Danny Trevathan, coach Matt Nagy said Monday.
The move seems likely: Trevathan’s left elbow bent the wrong way while tackling Lions quarterback Jeff Driskel on Sunday.
“Yeah, it’ not real pretty,” coach Matt Nagy said Monday. “But it’s a part of this game. You hate to see that, so we’ll see how that goes moving forward.”
Inside linebackers coach Mark DeLeone didn’t see Trevathan’s grotesque injury in real time, but wasn’t surprised by Trevathan’s stoic response to it. When he was injured, Trevathan merely jogged to the sideline.
“Danny Trevathan is a warrior and he’s an unbelievably tough man,” DeLeone said. “Being around him every day, you see it and you feel it. I know how gross it looked. His reaction didn’t surprise me.”
Trevathan had an MRI on Monday. An IR stint would end Trevathan’s season — and maybe even his Bears career. His four-year, $28 million contract is up at the end of the year.
Losing Trevathan is another blow to a defense that had another leader, defensive end Akiem Hicks, put on IR earlier in the year with his own gruesome elbow injury. He could return in Week 15 or later.
Nagy called Trevathan and Hicks “two of the most vocal guys on that side of the ball.”
