Bears offensive Guard underwent knee surgery, out for season
Chicago Bears guard Dakota Dozier recently underwent season-ending surgery to repair a torn ACL, a source told ESPN's Jeremy Fowler on Saturday.
Dozier was carted off the field during the Bears' first day of mandatory minicamp last month after injuring his left leg during practice.
The Bears initially placed Dozier on the injured reserve list in June after he went down in minicamp with the injury. Dozier, 31, was playing left guard with the second string when he was injured, and had been taking first-team reps earlier in the spring.
A fourth-round pick for the Jets in 2014 (137th overall), Dozier spent his first four seasons in New York, playing sparingly. He headed to Minnesota after that, and he wound up serving as the Vikings' starting left guard in 2020.
In his last full season in 2020, he played 1,083 total snaps, giving up 46 total pressures, nine QB hits and 6.0 sacks and earning a 44.6 overall grade from PFF.
