Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson will have groin surgery and could return to the team by the end of the season, coach Ben Johnson said Monday.
Jaylon Johnson was put on injured reserve Saturday, six days after suffering a serious groin injury in Detroit. He must miss at least four games while on IR, and figures to need more time than that, but the team isn’t ruling out a potential return late in the season.
Johnson missed the entirety of training camp after tearing the adductor muscle off his pelvic bone while working out at UNLV in July. The injury that happened when he defended a third-down Lions pass was to a different part of the groin, he said.
Last week, he told WSCR-AM’s “Spiegel and Holmes” that he was wrestling with the possibility that his season potentially had ended on the Ford Field turf.
Johnson signed a four-year, $76 million deal with the Bears that expires after the 2027 season.
O-line holds up well
The Bears’ offensive line was stout Sunday, allowing zero sacks for the first time in Caleb Williams’ career and zero hurries for only the 18th time during the franchise’s Super Bowl era.
“It’s good for Caleb, good for us,” center Drew Dalman said. “But I don’t really think we’re chasing things like that. We’re chasing what our standard is and what we can do.”
Johnson referenced line play when asked about Braxton Jones, saying he was “encouraged by the direction” the left tackle is headed. He bemoaned the Bears averaging only three yards per carry but praised the team’s pass protection.
Notes
• First-round tight end Colston Loveland left with a hip injury and told the Sun-Times after the game he’d be fine. Johnson said the Bears would continue to evaluate the injury the next few days but “it doesn’t seem like anything super-serious.”
• Receiver Luther Burden’s 101 receiving yards were the most by any rookie in the NFL this year.
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