Offensive tackle Kiran Amegadjie, the Bears’ third-round draft pick, won’t practice this offseason as he recovers from a quad injury. The Bears expect him to be healthy in time for training camp in July, coach Matt Eberflus said before rookie minicamp practice Friday.
The swing tackle played only four games for Yale last year before suffering the injury. The Bears expected they’d have to bring him along slowly when they picked him 75th overall last month.
“We knew about this injury, this quad injury that he had at his college, and we want to get that process in terms of the whole rehab and everything so he’s healthy for training camp,” Eberflus said.
The Bears will have organized team activities later this month and a mandatory minicamp in June. They’ll start training camp July 19, about a week earlier than normal because of their participation in the Hall of Fame Game against the Titans.
Amegadjie, a Hinsdale Central alum, was available in the third round partly because of his injury-shortened season. He could have stayed an extra season in college but chose to enter the draft. On draft night, he admitted that the calf injury was “pretty bad timing” for his draft positioning.
