The Bears likely will have some snags this season, but they are optimistic a coronavirus outbreak won’t be one of them.
General manager Ryan Pace said at least 85% of the players are vaccinated, and the NFL is expected to scale back the protocol for teams who hit that number. With players reporting Tuesday and beginning practice Wednesday, there’s little point in continuing to try to persuade the holdouts to get the vaccine.
“We really went through this process and lived by the ‘encourage and educate’ [approach] and try to let them understand the why part,” coach Matt Nagy said.