Examining the inaccurate reporting on Caleb Williams' hamstring injury

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How severe is Caleb Williams’ grade 2 hamstring injury, and how long will he be out?

Unknown 0:01

Rahimi and Grody. Hey, pay attention. Middays, 10 a.m. to two on the score. Injury news around Caleb Lane is a little bit worse than they let on. Doctors have told him that he is expected to miss three to four weeks with a grade two hamstring injury. It's more severe than people thought. They already have ruled him out of Monday night's game.

Mark Grote 0:27

Caleb is out. That we know. I would say that it's very probable that Case Keenum is your starting quarterback tonight with a dash of Tyson Bajan possibilities. We welcome you back to Rahemia Grody. I'm one oh four three. The score get to be with you guys up until two o'clock today. And at that time we will transition with Spiegelone Holmes, who are out and about. They're at our home away from home today in Elk Grove, a real time sports. there right now. They're there, they're practicing their show. They're setting up the stage. They're just having a good old time right now as we speak. You

Layla Rahimi 1:00

really think they're out there this early?

Mark Grote 1:02

Absolutely not. There's no possible way that they are out there right now at this moment.

Layla Rahimi 1:07

I was waiting and I didn't hear the uh the wink, so I just figured I would ask.

Mark Grote 1:11

No, they're I I maybe they're there, but I I would doubt that. Um we have we have been told we have been uh going back and forth here, texting with our friend Alshon Jeffrey, the former Bear and the former Eagles wide receiver. He is not joining us right now, but he will still join us on the show. He has been postponed until twelve twenty-five. So we will talk to Al Sean just a little bit later on. We are open today as well. We're reading your text messages as we speak. Sometimes we let one go through the phone as well.

Why have Bears injury updates and national NFL reporting been so confusing?

Mark Grote 1:40

312-644-6767 is the number. But there's been a lot of ambiguity, I guess would be the kind word to say as it pertains to Bears' injuries this year. There was a little bit of confusion over the weekend at Hallis Hall. Just what role Tyson Bajant may be prepared for in terms of Benjamin. Johnson and the Bears need to c needed to clarify that that Bajant likely will be active and the backup quarterback behind Case Keenum tonight. And you, Layla Raheemi, have been collecting the receipts on a lot of the injuries that the Bears have been dealing with and the information that has been coming out about them.

Layla Rahimi 2:17

Yeah, it just seems like whatever is coming to the national NFL reporters, and this started with the Kobe Bryant injury. It just seems like whatever it is has been incorrect. And I don't know what the process is or why this keeps continuing to happen in this way. We're people who usually are very solid on the accuracy of their injury reporting, who we trust, there's There's a reason we defer to them.

Mark Grote 2:44

Shefter, rapid.

Layla Rahimi 2:45

Pelicero, Rappaport being the top three. Pelicero being most recently saying it was a grade one hamstring. And the facts can change. You can have further evaluation and find out that something has indeed changed. That definitely happens all the time, as we know. We deal with that in baseball way too often these days. But once again, it's an issue when it comes to talking about the Bears. In Rapaport yesterday tweeted. Tweets. This is at ten forty nine in the morning, so this is your prime football pregame time. From this article that he wrote, it was originally it said Bears quarterback Caleb Williams dealing with a grade two hamstring strain was given a three to four week recovery timeline. Sources tell me and Adam Shafter, because you know, now there's the merger with ESPN and NFL network.

Layla Rahimi 3:30

A note a quick healer, he's hoping to beat it. Story. And end there. Rapapport then isolates these two paragraphs. As for Williams, he injured the same hamstring in college. Last week the third year star went down with con without contact and severe pain and was eventually carted off the field in the fourth quarter of Chicago's ninety three loss to the Minnesota Vikings. One reason for the pain was that Williams likely felt scar tissue breaking up from a past hamstring injury, a phenomenal On that can be quite painful to experience, but doesn't lead to long-term damage.