{"id":231468,"date":"2026-03-04T05:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/bears-hit-with-sudden-massive-need-following-stunning-retirement\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:56:26","slug":"bears-hit-with-sudden-massive-need-following-stunning-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/bears-hit-with-sudden-massive-need-following-stunning-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears hit with sudden massive need following stunning retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Eric Smithling is a writer based in New Orleans, LA, whose byline also appears on Athlon Sports.  He has been with Yardbarker since September 2022, primarily covering the NFL and college football, but also the NBA, WNBA, men\u2019s and women\u2019s college basketball, NHL, tennis and golf.  He holds a film studies degree from the University of New Orleans<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/bears_hit_with_sudden_massive_need_following_stunning_retirement\/s1_13132_43544491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Smithling is a writer based in New Orleans, LA, whose byline also appears on Athlon Sports. He has been with Yardbarker since September 2022, primarily covering the NFL and college football, but also the NBA, WNBA, men\u2019s and women\u2019s college basketball, NHL, tennis and golf. He holds a film studies degree from the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}