We need changes to the IOL ASAP

Yeah, he got benched.  Maybe he's just a head-case?  He is (or should be) the backup at RG this season and then cut him.  It doesn't make financial sense to cut him now though.  He is our $30-million dollar backup RG until the end of the season I think.

The heck of it is, he CAN play decent at times.  If you watch yesterday's game, before he got benched, he did have (at least) average play on most of those snaps.  That's what it looked like to me.  If Bates gets moved to center to replace Shelton, then I'd put Matt Pryor at RG.  I know he's on the depth chart as Wright's RT backup.  But he played better at guard in the preseason... and he looked really solid there.  

But yeah, the OL needs attention this off-season.  I don't think it's horrible.  I don't.  I'll bet the OL gets better this season.  But it needs some upgrades for 2025.  

EDIT:  Eberflus says Nate was benched due to him being limited in snap counts due to him recovering from injury.  Bates has been injured too, so they tried to not have either player go for a full game.  

My bad.  I just saw Eberflus' post game press conference and he said the team was just managing the snaps for Nate Davis due to his injury that he's coming back from.  He said the Bears had planned how many snaps he would get and when he hit that mark they pulled him.  

So it was a count of snaps and not a count of whiffs? That's a good thing. I think