Getty Former Chiefs running back Spencer Ware is reportedly headed to Chicago
The Chicago Bears are reportedly set to sign running back Spencer Ware to their practice squad, the running back announced via his LinkedIn page. “Hello Chicago Bears…Thanks for accepting me into the family,” Ware wrote on LinkedIn. Daniel Greenberg of ChiSports Updates and Zack Pearson of Bear Report were the first to break the news on Twitter.
The Bears announced yesterday that they had also released defensive tackle Tyler Clark from the practice squad, which is where Ware will likely head next.
#Bears roster move:
We have released DT Tyler Clark from the practice squad.
The Washington Football Team poached running back Lamar Miller of Chicago’s practice squad last week, and now Bears coach Matt Nagy has brought in someone familiar to fill Miller’s spot.
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RB Spencer Ware & Matt Nagy Have a History Together
GettyRunning back Spencer Ware’s last NFL game was last December, when the Kansas City Chiefs played the Chicago Bears. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
Ware was chosen by the Seattle Seahawks in the sixth round of the NFL Draft in 2013. He was released by Seattle in 2014, after hardly seeing the field at all his rookie season.
He caught on in Kansas City after that. The Chiefs signed Ware to their practice squad at the start of the 2015 season, and eventually moved him up to the active roster. He played in 11 games that year, starting two, and he had 72 carries for 403 yards (that’s 5.6 yards per carry).
He broke out in 2016, Nagy’s first year as offensive coordinator in Kansas City, scoring five touchdowns while rushing for 921 yards and gaining 1,368 yards from scrimmage. Nagy was on the coaching staff for two seasons Ware was active on the roster. A knee injury derailed his 2017 campaign, and he wasn’t the same player after that, playing in 16 games over the last two seasons for the Chiefs.
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So Long, Tyler Clark, We Barely Knew You …
The Bears added Clark, a 6-foot-4, 300-pound defensive tackle out of the University of Georgia, to their practice squad in early December.
Clark played in 47 games for the Bulldogs, accumulating 119 tackles, 19.5 tackles for loss, 6.5 sacks and a fumble recovery in that span. He had a standout season his senior year, totaling 2.5 sacks and a career-high eight tackles for loss in 11 games, but he went undrafted in the 2020 NFL Draft. Chicago added him to the practice squad for depth to the D-line, but he was never elevated to the active roster.
Clark was a reliable and experienced defensive lineman in his time with the Bulldogs, and his injury history is relatively clean, so it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him catch on somewhere else in the coming seasons if he isn’t added to another team’s practice squad this season.
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