{"id":18260,"date":"2025-07-24T13:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/bears-luther-burden-iii-still-not-practicing-due-to-injury-is-a-concern\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:02:26","slug":"bears-luther-burden-iii-still-not-practicing-due-to-injury-is-a-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/bears-luther-burden-iii-still-not-practicing-due-to-injury-is-a-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears: Luther Burden III, still not practicing due to injury, is a concern."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Concern in Chicago: Luther Burden III still out due to injury<\/h2>\n\nThe Chicago Bears are facing a worrying situation with the health of one of their top draft picks.\n\nRookie wide receiver Luther Burden III, selected at position 39, has been unable to practice since suffering a hamstring injury during the team&#8217;s first training session on May 20.\n\nBurden was expected to be ready for the start of training camp after missing spring training, but he still hasn&#8217;t been able to take the field.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cWe were very hopeful that he would be ready for the first day,\u201d Bears coach Ben Johnson commented on Thursday. \u201cBut the soft tissue he was dealing with in the spring lingered a little longer than we wanted. So, really, it&#8217;s day-to-day with him. We hope to have him on the field pretty soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<cite>Ben Johnson, Bears Coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAlso absent from Thursday&#8217;s practice were freshmen Shemar Turner (ankle) and Zah Frazier (personal reasons).\n\nBurden was a first-team All-SEC selection during the 2023-24 seasons and earned AP All-American honors during his sophomore season, in which he amassed 1,212 receiving yards.\n\nThe Bears selected Burden after using their first-round pick on tight end Colston Loveland, the first time in the Common Draft Era (since 1967) that Chicago drafted pass catchers with their first two selections.\n\nBurden is expected to compete for the third receiver position for the Bears, behind DJ Moore and Rome Odunze. With Burden sidelined, veteran receivers Olamide Zacchaeus and Devin Duvernay have been taking reps with the first-team unit during the early days of training camp.\n\nMeanwhile, coaches are emphasizing mental preparation for the rookie.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cEverything our training staff tells us we can do physically with him, we\u2019re utilizing,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI know the receivers coach (Antwaan) Randle El has been on him in meetings, keeping him involved, they\u2019re testing him non-stop. Our quarterbacks are pulling him aside, whether it\u2019s in drills or on his own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<cite>Ben Johnson, Bears Coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nJohnson expressed his hope that Burden will be on the field for his first training in &#8220;a few&#8221; days, classifying his condition as &#8220;day to day&#8221;.\n\nLast week, Burden was the last of Chicago&#8217;s three second-round picks to sign his rookie contract, which is a fully guaranteed deal worth $10.965 million. He is the first player drafted at No. 39 to sign a fully guaranteed contract.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concern in Chicago: Luther Burden III still out due to injury The Chicago Bears are facing a worrying situation with the health of one of their top draft picks. Rookie wide receiver Luther Burden III, selected at position 39, has been unable to practice since suffering a hamstring injury during the team&#8217;s first training session [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[288,751,290,6265],"class_list":{"0":"post-18260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-hamstring","10":"tag-injury","11":"tag-luther-burden-iii"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}