Chicago Bears linebacker has been placed on the injured reserve as coach Lovie Smith’s team will be without their leader on defense for the rest of the season due to a dislocated right wrist.
Unfortunately for the Bears and Urlacher, this is one player that only missed less than 16 games in his 10-year NFL career. The last time for Urlacher was five years ago when he only played nine games also due to injuries.
Now that he is healthy after two years of back and neck problems, he is out again after lowering his shoulder and plowing Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Though the Bears lost the game 21-15 that was not the only thing they lost last night.
Urlacher underwent surgery Monday to repair the dislocated wrist. Can you say big blow? Urlacher is a big impact player and without him the Bears expectations of making the Super Bowl this season has been heavily affected.
Though the injury occurred in the first quarter of the game and no one is certain when precisely, Urlacher played the second quarter, but left in the second half on Green Bay’s first drive.
“Talk about a guy that’s a great leader,” said Hunter Hillenmeyer. Hillenmeyer replaced Urlacher when the Bears leader left the game. “First, he plays an entire half of football with a dislocated wrist. I don’t think there’s many people who can do something like that.”
The Bears will be looking for players to replace some huge shoes left by Urlacher. Speculations have already started that the Bears might sign free agent and unsigned defensive stalwart Derrick Brooks who was cut last season by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Also Zach Thomas who was just released by the Kansas City Chiefs is looked upon as a replacement. These two names are just stop gaps because the Bears know it would be difficult to fill Urlacher’s shoes.
But the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that the Bears, on Tuesday, will sign linebacker Tim Shaw to a one-year contract as long as he passes a physical, which is expected on Tuesday.
Shaw is as established as Thomas or Brooks, but is younger. He was drafted in the fifth-round by the Carolina Panthers in 2007.
Shaw, who attended Penn State, was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars at the end of the summer and with strong-side linebacker Pisa Tinoisamoa out for a month, this signing was necessary.
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