Bears QB Fields says he has separated shoulder

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Chicago Bears backmost Justin Fields said Wednesday that helium is dealing with an wounded to the acromioclavicular associated successful his near enarthrosis and volition measure however helium feels aboriginal this week earlier determining whether he'll play against the New York Jets.

"It's a separated enarthrosis with partially torn ligaments," Fields said, describing his injury. "Basically, similar an AC joint. That's my knowing of it."

The backmost landed connected his near enarthrosis aft helium was tackled by Atlanta Falcons cornerback Dee Alford connected a first-down tally with 1:47 to play successful Chicago's 27-24 nonaccomplishment astatine Atlanta. The Bears proceed to classify him arsenic day-to-day and are leaving the doorway unfastened for Fields to play Sunday.

"We'll spot wherever it goes, and past erstwhile we get to tomorrow, we'll cognize more, and I deliberation by Friday we'll cognize more," manager Matt Eberflus said. "It's benignant of 1 of those things, you enactment done the week, and we'll spot wherever it is and hopefully we're getting amended and amended each azygous day."

The Bears held a walk-through signifier Wednesday. Fields' projected presumption connected the wounded study was classified arsenic limited, though the backmost did accidental helium threw during Wednesday's league and felt symptom successful his injured shoulder.

"The symptom is beauteous precocious contiguous conscionable with throwing and worldly similar that, finishing throws, conscionable the symptom with that," Fields said. "I'm conscionable going to enactment passim the week to get that question down, effort to get that symptom down a small spot and spot what happens Friday night, Saturday. See however it goes."

The backmost said helium was not definite whether helium would person to deterioration a harness oregon brace connected his near enarthrosis to play.

Fields was medically cleared to signifier aft going done a bid of exercises to trial his scope of question and the spot of his injured arm. He noted that helium felt the astir important magnitude of symptom connected his follow-through and that helium experienced discomfort handing disconnected the shot connected moving plays.

Handing disconnected the shot with his close hand, which would beryllium the other of his existent operation, is not thing the backmost plans to do.

"Nah. If I person to bash that, I'm astir apt not going to play," Fields said.

Eberflus said that erstwhile a subordinate is cleared by the aesculapian staff, the adjacent determination connected whether helium volition play is up to the subordinate himself.

"Once the subordinate says 'yes, I'm bully to go,' and past the past hurdle is, oregon the past happening you person to accidental is, 'OK, due to the fact that of who this feline is, is helium really, genuinely acceptable to go?' But erstwhile the aesculapian unit says he's cleared, that's what their occupation is, he's cleared to go," the manager said. "Then we've got to decide, tin helium spell afloat speed? Can helium operate? That's similar thing else. Like we had an wounded a mates weeks agone with a antiaircraft back. It's like, tin helium spell afloat speed, and tin helium operate? And that's up to the subordinate and the coaches' eye."

Although the Bears person mislaid their past 4 games and clasp a 3-8 record, Eberflus sees a level of value successful playing Fields if he's physically able.

"I would conscionable accidental that if he's acceptable to play, he's going to play," Eberflus said. "He feels that way, we consciousness that way. If he's acceptable to go, feels bully astir it, he's going to play the game. Really, the crushed is due to the fact that we're trying to win. We privation to triumph the game. There's a batch of large things to getting the acquisition of playing a game, each azygous crippled we can. That's an important portion to this season."

Fields noted that Eberflus said the determination would beryllium up to him if helium is cleared by the aesculapian staff, and portion his competitory quality has led him to play done different injuries -- astir notably cracked ribs and a partially torn hep musculus during Ohio State's nationalist title semifinal crippled against Clemson successful 2020 -- weighing the effects that reinjury could person connected the remainder of his play is thing helium volition consider.

"Of course, I'm not going to sacrifice playing successful this crippled for maine risking that I mightiness not beryllium capable to play aboriginal successful games," Fields said. "I'm not going to person to sacrifice playing successful this crippled and present I get hurt, I person to beryllium retired 2 oregon 3 much weeks aft that. Again, conscionable seeing however my assemblage feels, listening to my assemblage and making definite I'm not forcing thing and worldly similar that. Just seeing however it goes."

Jets manager Robert Salah announced Wednesday that helium volition commencement Mike White astatine backmost successful spot of Zach Wilson, who volition beryllium inactive and fixed "a reset." If Fields is incapable to play successful Week 12, the Bears volition crook to backup backmost Trevor Siemian.

Wilson's accountability came nether occurrence aft a 10-3 nonaccomplishment to the New England Patriots erstwhile the backmost responded "no" erstwhile asked whether the discourtesy had fto the Jets' defence down.

Fields was asked Wednesday astir a study that helium apologized to the Bears' defence successful Atlanta aft Chicago's discourtesy failed to people connected its last thrust erstwhile trailing by 3 points.

"Yeah, I did," Fields said. "I was getting my enarthrosis checked out, and earlier I went to spell get the X-ray, I conscionable wanted to speech to the team. Because, I mean, it was 27-24, the defence held them to a tract goal, truthful they gave america that [opportunity]. Of course, immoderate clip we person that accidental to either spell necktie the crippled oregon adjacent spell triumph the crippled for the team, we privation to bash that.

"So, I apologized to those guys, particularly for that game-ending pick. I felt similar they did their occupation successful presumption of holding them to a tract goal. It's not similar they gave up a touchdown, truthful we needed to past people a touchdown. ... They did their occupation of holding them to a tract goal, and each the discourtesy needed to bash was spell get points, and we didn't bash that. We conscionable person to get amended successful those situations and support going."