Bears brace for Danny Trevathan to head to injured reserve after elbow injury

The Bears will spend the next two days deciding whether to put inside linebacker Danny Trevathan on injured reserve, coach Matt Nagy said Monday.

Trevathan’s left elbow bent the wrong way while he tackled Lions quarterback Jeff Driskel on Sunday.

“Yeah, it’s not real pretty,” Nagy said. “But it’s a part of this game. You hate to see that, so we’ll see how that goes moving forward.”

Inside linebackers coach Mark DeLeone didn’t see Trevathan’s grotesque injury in real time, but he wasn’t surprised by his stoic response to it. When he was injured, Trevathan merely jogged to the sideline.

“Danny Trevathan is a warrior, and he’s an unbelievably tough man,” DeLeone said. “Being around him every day, you see it and you feel it. I know how gross it looked. His reaction didn’t surprise me.”

An IR stint would end Trevathan’s season — and maybe his Bears career. His four-year, $28 million contract is up at the end of the season.

Losing Trevathan would be another blow to a defense that had another leader, defensive end Akiem Hicks, put on IR in October with his own gruesome elbow injury. He could return in Week 15 or later.

Nagy called Trevathan and Hicks “two of the most vocal guys on that side of the ball.”

Burton hurt

Tight end Trey Burton, who did not have a catch for the second consecutive game, hurt his calf Sunday. He has been hampered by a groin injury all year.

“He’s not at that 100 percent level,” Nagy said, “so it’s trying to say, ‘OK, what are the right routes for him to do to where you feel that burst or you feel like he can beat man coverage?’

“He’s giving it everything he can. And that’s just kind of where we’re at.”

Nagy was vague, though, when asked what tight end Adam Shaheen could do to get back on the field. The 2017 second-round pick was a healthy scratch Sunday for the first time in his career.

“We want all of our players to be able to be completely detailed and play hard,” Nagy said. “And do everything they can to be the best player they can be.”

Davis signs with Panthers

The Panthers claimed running back Mike Davis, who was waived by the Bears on Saturday to increase their chances of receiving a compensatory draft pick in 2020.

The Bears signed Davis to a two-year, $6 million contract in March. But he never was able to fit into a three-man running-back rotation, in part because rookie David Montgomery “has kinda taken off with what we’ve given him,” running backs coach Charles London said Monday.

Davis played only 12 percent of the Bears’ offensive snaps.

“He wants an opportunity to play a little bit more, and that opportunity probably wasn’t going to be here for him,” London said.

That might not happen on the Panthers, either. He’ll be one of the backups to Christian McCaffrey, who ranks second in the NFL with 989 rushing yards.