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Chicago Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky is exercising caution, but he believes that he’ll be ready for Week 12’s matchup against the New York Giants.
Trubisky left Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Rams with a hip pointer, an injury that Trubisky described as so uncomfortable that he couldn’t sit down on the sideline and made the plane ride home a painful one.
But when Trubisky met with the media before Wednesday’s practice, he was optimistic about his chances to start Sunday against the Giants.
“[The hip feels] a lot better,” Trubisky said prior to practice, via the Sun-Times. “Day and night almost.”
While Matt Nagy insists that Trubisky remains day-to-day, the third-year quarterback sounded like a man that plans on playing Sunday. It certainly helps that he was a full participant in Wednesday’s practice with no limitations.
“I’m going to do as much as I can and as much as they allow me to do — day by day,” Trubisky said. “They have a plan in place to where we’re not overdoing it. I feel pretty confident that whatever they give me, I’m going to keep taking it, feeling good, keep going and communicating and monitoring it and just make sure there’s no setbacks. … If it keeps improving by Sunday, I don’t see any problems.”
When Nagy was asked if it would be better to shut down Trubisky in order to let him get a fresh start for 2020, Nagy insinuated that these final six games are important when it comes to evaluating Trubisky both developmentally and performance-wise.
“We need to see where he’s at,” Nagy said, “where our offense is at and continue to just keep rolling. We want him to be at practice. We want him to be out there this week as the starter. I’m hoping that’s the case.”
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