Generate a healthy ball carrier for the opening of the season on Monday

The quarter of the Bears de Chicago, Caleb Williams (18 years old) does not light up to the Bears of the balloon carrier of Andre Swift (4) during the first half of a pre-season football match of the NFL against the Chiefs of Kansas City, Friday August 22, 2025 in Kansas City, Mo. The Bears beaten the Chiefs, 29-27. (Photo / reed hoffmann)
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When Chicago Bears Running Back, from Andre Swift, trained towards the end of the training camp last week, he knew not to look for help.

This was quickly strengthened towards the start of training. Swift took a click of the quarter-Arrière Caleb Williams when they practiced their transfers. Tyson Bagent and Case Keenum backups gave their transfer to coaches staff.

“I just got my job today,” Swift told Halas Hall journalists in Lake Forest at the time. “It was a good day of packaging, put it like that.”

It was the smallest runner room that Swift had been part of his six -year career. The runners Roschon Johnson, the recruit Kyle Monangai and Travis Homer all recovered from various injuries, while Brittain Brown had not been signed to the training team at that time.

The room may not become much larger for the opening of the Bears season against the Vikings of Minnesota on Monday. Johnson has not practiced in recent weeks with a foot injury while Monangai has been limited to training this week with a hamstring injury. The Bears placed Homer in the injured reserve to start the season and the first four games will miss.

Managing the ball was an essential part of the coach Ben Johnson’s attack during his stay with the Detroit lions. The bears feel comfortable with what they have in the room to be this key cog.

“I am very comfortable because that’s what we got,” said running back coach Eric Bieeniemy. “These are my guys. My job is to make sure I can get the most out of it and maximize their skills and their abilities. We will therefore continue to cut wood and we will make sure they also find a way to drag their buttocks through the finish line.”

The Lions have been one of the best hasty teams in the league in the last three seasons that Johnson was their attacking coordinator. Detroit finished 11th with 2,179 yards on the ground, including Swift, before going to the fifth (2,311) and sixth (2488) in 2023 and 2024, respectively.

Johnson took advantage of the talent he had on his list. He used the Dynamic Running Back duo of Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery in the past two seasons, as well as one of the best offensive lines in the League. Once the defenses focused on the race, Johnson designed the means to open the past game for the quarter of the Jared Goff Lions.

The Bears are trying to follow the same protocol.

General Posts Ryan Ryan reorganized his offensive line during the Deadness when he exchanged the goalkeeper of all the pro-Pro Joe Thuney and Jonah Jackson and signed the Drew Dalman center in free will. According to rumors, Chicago adds a ball carrier in a free agency and at the start of the project. Instead, they drafted Monangai in the seventh round.

Johnson has also tried to change the state of mind in the back room. He stressed the importance of staying on the “tracks” in the spring, which Swift described as focusing on details. Sometimes the simplest game is the most effective game.

“I discussed with them all the time, and not that we wanted to run in a wall, but the shortest distance between two points is a straight line and sometimes this straight line is the fastest way to reach the goal line,” said Bieeniemy. “We just have to make sure that when these opportunities arise, we were able to spend a hole through, find four (yards). Everything that is after that is a bonus.”

Everything will be a bonus that goes against La Défense de Pointe des Vikings.

The Minnesota finished as one of the best breathtaking defenses of the NFL last year, allowing the second plus grounds on the ground with 1,588. The Vikings also strengthened their rush to the season during the dead season by adding the former professional defender Jonathan Allen and the defensive platform Javon Hargrave in the free agency.

The BEARS attacking coordinator, Declan Doyle, told journalists on Friday that the race attack must have a solid first step in Williams’ cadence to be effective. He wants the bears to leave the ball with low pads and get it.

How much the bears will execute the ball must still be determined. Ben Johnson did not get his hands on how he will tackle the defense of the Vikings.

“I mean as always, we will do everything we do to move football,” said Ben Johnson. “So, if that means that we can execute the ball 50 times per game, great. If it means that we have to throw it 50 times per game, it’s great too. We will find a way to advance the ball, and every week of your own puzzle that we are trying to solve.”

Who will be exactly there to perform this mentality on Monday remains to be seen. Roschon Johnson should not play on Monday. It is also difficult to say how effective Monangai and Brown would be in their first professional games, especially after Monangai has missed in recent weeks.

This puts the majority of the load on Swift.

Swift is looking for a rebound season after reaching its goals last year. He made the average of the lower yards by race during his career after a higher number of rush last season.

Swift was part of Johnson’s culture in Detroit and adopted the stay on the “tracks” during the out -of -season camp and the training camp, focusing on the details of everything he does. Now he’s ready to show that he can help Bears execute Johnson’s plan in Chicago.

“I am approaching every day with the mentality” prove “,” said Swift. “Just try to improve something every day, with the weight coach (Biemeny) and the coach (Johnson) and everyone on the offensive staff who is a little, I mean everything. Details. I’m just trying to be really intentional.”

Chicago Bears, Andre Swift’s ball carrier (4) short with the ball during the first half of an NFL football match against the Chiefs of Kansas City on Friday August 22, 2025, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP photo / Charlie Riedel)
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