Tyrique Stevenson left practice after being told of benching

I just read this by Courtney Cronin (LINK):


"Bears coaches/execs arrived at the decision to not start Stevenson on Tuesday and relayed that to the cornerback before Wednesday’s practice, which was a walk thru. I’m told that Stevenson did leave practice after the stretching period to gather himself after learning of his demotion from the starting lineup but returned to practice after a couple minutes inside the locker room and came back out for the team periods during walk thru. While Stevenson’s teammates have expressed frustrations over how things went down in Washington, there wasn’t anything confrontational due to the cornerback leaving walk thru before returning.

The plan for Stevenson today will be to rotate in, similar to how the Bears used Terell Smith in Washington (23 snaps) last week. This isn’t a permanent benching by any means. Sources I spoke with this morning and this week have indicated to me that the Bears have strong belief in Stevenson and want to help hold him accountable and allow him to move past his actions that took away his focus from the Commanders game."

— Courtney Cronin

i would like to see cooler heads prevail here. Stevenson is a very good player with a bright future ahead of him. Yes he did something stupid. He’s been nationally and permanently embarassed. That’s worse than almost anything. Now he’s embarassed again. It’s hard to argue against the benching, but I would like to see Poles and Eberflus talk to him.

He deserved it. Should have apologized and taken his punishment like a man.

It sounds like you're right and this wasn't the first time they've been working with him to mature.  I'm thinking all of the fallout of the situation is a self-inflicted wound.  And even a hard-headed young player should (finally) learn from this and curb the stupid stuff.  If this doesn't get his attention then he's a head-case player who will never change.