Big number of Bears miss practice Wednesday due to injury

In addition to backup quarterback Mitch Trubisky, Bears center Sam Mustipher was also absent from practice Wednesday. The Bears' injury report indicated Mustipher is out with a knee injury.

Numerous Bears missed practice Wednesday with injuries: tight end Jimmy Graham (knee/hamstring), safety Eddie Jackson (knee), defensive tackle John Jenkins (ankle), wide receiver Anthony Miller (toe), defensive end Roy Robertson-Harris (shoulder) and center Cody Whitehair (calf).

Defensive tackle Akiem Hicks and linebacker Danny Trevathan had the day off to rest. Safety Tashaun Gipson (foot) was limited in practice.

Offensive Rashaad Coward (ankle) and defensive back DeAndre Houston-Carson (forearm/ankle) were full participants in practice.

With Mustipher and Whitehair nursing injuries, the Bears could be dangerously thin on the offensive line this week. The team had only eight offensive linemen available for practice Wednesday.

"You have to have backup plans," Bears coach Matt Nagy said Wednesday. "So we try to, as we're creating a game plan, we try to think of all the situations. Then schematically you have to adjust. If you don't adjust and you just do things the way you've always done them, at least for a contingency plan, then you'll end up being in trouble."

The team signed center Aaron Neary to the practice squad Tuesday. Neary has played in only one NFL game with the Rams in 2017, when he filled in at the center position.