Tight end Trey Burton played 43 percent of the Bears’ offensive snaps Sunday in his first game of 2019, but Bears coach Matt Nagy said Monday his workload should ramp up in the coming weeks.
“It’ll take a little bit of time … ” Nagy said. “It’s the fact of him just getting into game shape. He’s been out of it so long. If you expect him to go into Denver there and play 60-70 plays, that’s not happening.”
Burton had two catches for five yards against the Broncos. He hurt his groin in late August, an injury the Bears claimed was unrelated to the groin problem that cost him the Bears’ playoff game and needed offseason surgery to repair.
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• Nagy said it was difficult to make special teams stalwart Sherrick McManis a healthy scratch Sunday.
“It’s not easy because he’s such a good player on special teams, and he gives you value with depth on defense,” Nagy said. “And what he has done with us, the person part, those conversations when you have that with him are never fun.”
McManis typically plays the outside edge rusher position on the field goal block team; cornerback Buster Skrine jumped offside from that position on the Broncos’ missed extra point. Skrine said the snapper twisted the ball before he snapped it.
“That’s another interesting situation there that’s one for us to learn from,” Nagy said.
• Nagy called the NFL’s rule to bring the two-point conversion up to the 1-yard line after the offside call “unique,” and hinted that perhaps the league could re-examine the rule afte the season
“I don’t think it happens very often,” he said “Now that it happened, maybe they’ll check it out and see.”
