{"id":28508,"date":"2017-08-27T19:36:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T23:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=28508"},"modified":"2017-08-27T19:36:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T23:36:45","slug":"cameron-meredith-likely-done-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/08\/27\/cameron-meredith-likely-done-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears Wide Receiver Cameron Meredith Likely Done for Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third week of the NFL preseason has not been kind to wide receivers.<\/p>\n<p>Just two days after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/E\/EdelJu00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julian Edelman<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s season came <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlbertBreer\/status\/901481379959123969\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to a premature end with a torn ACL<\/a>, the same unfortunate injury likely befell <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MereCa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cameron Meredith<\/a><\/strong> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/bears\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Bears<\/a>. Meredith suffered the injury in the first quarter of Sunday&#8217;s game against the Tennessee Titans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bears?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Bears<\/a> WR Cameron Meredith is believed to have torn his ACL, per Pam Oliver on the Fox broadcast. Likely had additional damage, too. Too bad<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/901880985175937024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Chicago Bears Wide Receiver Cameron Meredith Likely Done for Year<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>FOX Sports sideline reporter <strong>Pam Oliver<\/strong> reported after halftime that the team feared the worst regarding Meredith&#8217;s knee. Bears head coach <strong>John Fox<\/strong> later confirmed to the media after the game that Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bears\/2017\/08\/27\/cameron-meredith-knee-injury-carted-off-chicago-bears\/606287001\/?utm_source=feedblitz&amp;utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&amp;utm_campaign=usatodaycomnfl-topstories\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is assuming his season is done before it began<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a huge setback to a receiving corps that underwent significant change in the off-season. The team said goodbye to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JeffAl00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alshon Jeffery<\/a><\/strong> who spent the first five seasons of his career in Chicago but <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2017\/03\/09\/alshon-jeffery-signs-philadelphia-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed with the Philadelphia Eagles on March 9th<\/a>. But they also added <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WheaMa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Markus Wheaton<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WrigKe01.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kendall Wright<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/C\/CruzVi00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Cruz<\/a><\/strong> in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Meredith enjoyed a breakout campaign in 2016, his second in the league. The undrafted free agent out of Illinois State registered a team-leading 888 receiving yards. He also added four touchdown grabs which was tied with tight end <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=MillZa01,MillZa02&amp;search=Zach+Miller&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Miller<\/a><\/strong> for most on the team.<\/p>\n<p>Among the players who need to step up in Meredith&#8217;s absence is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WhitKe00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin White<\/a><\/strong>. The Bears picked him seventh overall in the 2015 NFL Draft, but injuries have limited him to four games played in the two seasons since. He missed the entirety of his rookie season due to surgery on a stress fracture in his tibia. Last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobears.com\/news\/article-1\/Bears-put-White-on-injured-reserve\/08544d9a-3de2-4657-a9cf-7bad51a0ad28\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago placed him on injured reserve<\/a> after he fractured his fibula in the same leg on October 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago&#8217;s preseason concludes Thursday when they welcome the Cleveland Browns to Soldier Field. Their regular season opener is a tough one as they host the defending NFC champion Atlanta Falcons on September 10th (noon CT, FOX).<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"CkvabTNMTZd88aba8fXu1w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/839920542\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'CkvabTNMTZd88aba8fXu1w',sig:'h2r3RrSNhu3LeHkC4ANN2mwctZxFCS4OxH9kCcggbR0=',w:'594px',h:'421px',items:'839920542',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears receiving corps took a huge hit as Cameron Meredith&#8217;s season is likely over due to a torn ACL suffered in Sunday&#8217;s preseason game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":28511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,36],"tags":[2044,42,61,666,40],"class_list":["post-28508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bears","category-nfl-news","tag-cameron-meredith","tag-chicago-bears","tag-football","tag-julian-edelman","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}