Since the start of the regular season, Chicago Bears wide receiver Rome Odunze and most of his offensive teammates have started most Wednesday practices in a similar fashion.

Bears wide receivers, running backs, tight ends and quarterbacks all run to one end of a field at Halas Hall in Lake Forest once a horn sounds, signalling that the stretching session is over. They each dash over to where Bears assistants wait with props in hand.

Sometimes, every player has to catch a ball, turn and run by coaches wearing boxing gloves, who try to knock the ball out before players run through a long football gauntlet. Other times, players receive a ball, run in a circle around a practice donut before having to dodge flying objects and running through a gauntlet.

“That gauntlet, I mean, it’s no j

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