Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy says 20 carries a game ‘doable’ for David Montgomery this season

Montgomery, 24, tied for fifth in total rushing yards (1,070) and finished fourth in carries (247) in 2020, but 77 of Montgomery’s rushing attempts occurred over the final three weeks of the regular season. Cheap 34 Walter Payton NFL Jerseys,

Montgomery carried the football 20-plus times in only four games last year, including the playoffs Cheap Chicago Bears NFL Jerseys, . In 2019 — Montgomery’s rookie season — the former third-round pick out of Iowa State also reached the 20-carry threshold on just four occasion Cheap Stitched NFL Jerseys, s.

“For us, when you’re able to get in that fourth quarter and you have the lead and you can hand the ball off to David Montgomery, that’s a good thing,” Nagy sa Cheap Stitched NFL kids jerseys, id. “Unfortunately we haven’t been in that situation enough in the past two years. So it’s limited him a little bit with carries. A lot of these big backs or these guys that get these heavier carries are getting them in the fourth quarter and it’s jumping their numbers up a little. So that ’20’ number was a part of that, when you’re winning in the fourth. But at the same time, if he’s running the ball well and we’re doing great with the O-line, let’s get after it.

“David and I have a phenomenal relationship — very, very close with him. I trust him, he trusts me. And I think that’s why we’re really looking forward to getting to this training camp.”

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