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The Chicago Bears on Monday made the following transactions: Placed the following player on Reserve/Non-Football Injury: DB Zah Frazier Waived the following players: DB Millard Bradford DL Xavier Carlton DB Alex Cook LB Power Echols DB Kaleb Hayes QB Austin Reed RB Ian Wheeler TE Joel Wilson Released the following players: DB Tre Flowers RB Royce Freeman OL Joshua Miles

Given what you have seen from Ian Wheeler, Kyle Monangai, and Brittain Brown this preseason, adding another running back may not be as high as it once was.

That is when the ground game started to take over as the Bears grinded out the remaining 30 yards, capped off by a one-yard Ian Wheeler score that made this a 28-0 game. Wheeler has been impressive the past two seasons, and with 80 yards on 19 carries, his strong run continued. ..... You also have Wheeler and now Brown coming into the running back room, as both have proven they have what it takes to earn a roster spot this season.

Having a roughing the passer penalty start the drive certainly helped, but so did Ian Wheeler taking it upon himself to carry the ball on three consecutive plays, picking up 17 yards.

“I thought all the runners, (Monangai), I thought Roschon (Johnson), I thought (D’Andre) Swift, I thought Ian (Wheeler), I thought all those guys, they were putting their shoulders down and they were running through contact and if they saw a little crease, that’s where I had a little bit better view than the other coaches, just seeing holes whether they were there or not and I thought those guys were trying to play a physical brand of football all around,” Johnson said.