Cornerbacks Jaylon Johnson and Kyler Gordon were activated off injured reserve prior to the Bears' flight to Philadelphia.
Courtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota Vikings before switching to the Chicago Bears in 2022. Courtney is a frequent panelist on Around the Horn and host of Best Week Ever and GameNight on ESPN Radio.
She also co-hosts The Chicago Bears Podcast on ESPN 1000. She previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News as a multimedia sports journalist.were activated off injured reserve prior to the Bears' flight to Philadelphia on Thursday. Johnson and Gordon were both designated as questionable to play on the team's final injury report. Johnson has missed all but one half of the season when he sustained an injury to his core muscle in the second quarter of Chicago's Week 2 loss at Detroit. The Pro Bowl cornerback underwent surgery in September and returned to practice nine weeks later. Gordon has played in two games this season after a hamstring injury forced him to miss Weeks 1-4 and subsequent calf and groin injuries landed him on injured reserve ahead of Week 8. None of Chicago's starting cornerbacks have played together this season. Johnson and Gordon's activation comes at an important time given the Bears will be without fellow cornerbackCoach Ben Johnson said the Bears will be mindful with the amount of game action they expect from Gordon and Jaylon Johnson should both be active on Friday. "I just I go back to the moment we started practicing them," Ben Johnson said."It was with the big picture in mind. How do we acclimate them, make sure that we're putting them in a good spot? "So throughout the course of the weeks of practice, we've been able to slowly increase the rep count there, and then, yeah, we'll be very mindful of that when we do get them up and going in a game, just we don't want to throw them into the wolves or put them in a bad spot. So yeah, that's all been talked about, and we have a plan for it."
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