Defensive End · Chicago Bears

Montez Sweat

No. 98 · 8th season

Montez Sweat starts the year on the wrong list

The first week of the season is supposed to be a fresh start. For Montez Sweat, it began with his name on the non-football illness list — a Tuesday roster move that kept him off the field before the Chicago Bears even held their first practice.

Sweat is one of the Bears' most important pass rushers, brought in to help rebuild a defense that needed an identity. Whatever is going on health-wise, the timing puts him behind from day one.

The non-football illness list means the issue isn't injury related — it's something else, something separate from practice and pads. The Bears haven't said much, and right now there isn't much to say. What matters is that he's not practicing, and the calendar is already moving.

It might be nothing. It might resolve in a few days and nobody remembers it happened. But it's the kind of quiet Tuesday news that can quietly become a longer story.

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