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BOURBONNAIS Eddie Jackson Jersey , Ill. (AP)When linebacker Danny Trevathan returned to practice Monday after recovering from a pulled hamstring, it left the Chicago Bears missing only one inside linebacker – first-round draft pick Roquan Smith.When Smith will join the team is hard to say.After the New York Jets reached a contract agreement Monday with quarterback Sam Darnold, Smith became the lone unsigned pick from the 2018 draft class.”We will continue to keep trying to do our best to make this thing happen,” Bears coach Matt Nagy said after Saturday’s practice. ”At the same time, what we need to do is we need to focus on who’s here right now, right? That’s the realism of it all.”Cash is not the problem – at least in terms of how much Smith is to be paid. That amount is slotted for the eighth pick of the draft.The stumbling block is whether the Bears should be allowed to take back guaranteed bonus money in the future from Smith if he is ever suspended for disciplinary reasons, including a violation of the league’s new rule preventing players from leading with their helmets.”Well, for both sides https://www.thebearsfanshop.com/Allen-Robinson-Jersey , it’s more of a language deal, a language-type deal,” Nagy said.Asked specifically if the issue is the helmet rule, Nagy said: ”That’s part of the issue with it. As far as the details, I’m not going to get into all that right now. That wouldn’t be fair to either party, but there’s some of that to it.”The new rule stipulates a player will be penalized for lowering his head to initiate and make contact with his helmet. The player will be ejected and could be subject to suspension if he is determined to have lowered his helmet to ”establish a linear body posture.”The Bears had a somewhat similar situation last year with Trevathan when he was suspended for an illegal hit on Packers wide receiver Davante Adams.In that instance, Chicago management never sought to reclaim any bonus money given to Trevathan.”They were on my side about the hit against Green Bay,” Trevathan said.As a result Chase Daniel Color Rush Jersey , Trevathan remained optimistic his new teammate will soon be in camp.”So I’m sure they’ll work it out,” Trevathan said. ”It’s just details within a contract. We want him here.”Trevathan said he has been in contact with Smith during the holdout.”I’ve been talking to him, just making sure as a person he was all right, he’s not fading away from the game that he loves,” Trevathan said. ”I just make sure that he’s all right. I’ve been through some stuff.”I’m pretty sure he wants to take care of himself and he wants to get back in. I’m sure he’s missing just as much as we are.”Smith was fully involved in off-season work with the Bears, so Trevathan doubts his teammate will have any trouble catching up after the holdout ends.Chicago has an extra preseason game this season, so Smith’s holdout has come at a time when the Bears normally wouldn’t have been in training camp. They open preseason Thursday night in Canton, Ohio Bennie Fowler III Jersey , against the Baltimore Ravens in the Hall of Fame Game.The Bears have traditionally been among the first teams to get all their draft picks signed. In one 10-year stretch, they were the first team to sign all their picks nine times.They haven’t had a holdout of note since Cedric Benson missed 36 days in 2005.Nick Kwiatkoski and John Timu have taken most of the snaps at inside linebacker during training camp with the first team. Trevathan is practicing on a limited basis until he’s 100 percent healthy.Kwiatkoski has earned Nagy’s respect in scrimmages. A third-year player, Kwiatkoski had been a reserve but played extensively each of his first two years because of injuries and suspensions to Trevathan and former Bear Jerrell Freeman.”I love his mentality,” Nagy said of Kwiatkoski. ”He didn’t blink when we drafted Roquan. He stepped right on in there and put the horse blinders on and went after it.”— The problem for the Chicago Bears was more about their play in the trenches than when they arrived in London.A Bears team known for its dominant defensive front was overwhelmed by the Oakland Raiders rushing game and Chicago was unable to generate anything on the ground at all. That added up to a 24-21 loss Sunday night that sent the Bears home from their short stay across the pond searching for consistency.The game couldn't have started much worse for the Bears (3-2), who were held to 44 yards behind backup quarterback Chase Daniel in the first half by a Raiders (3-2) defense that had struggled ever since trading Khalil Mack to Chicago. The vaunted Chicago defense didn't do much either and the Bears trailed 17-0 at the break.That raised questions about whether arriving on Friday — four days after the Raiders got to town — was a bad move by coach Matt Nagy."Had nothing to do with when we came here and when we didn't," Nagy said. "It's about playing football."The Bears played good football for a little more than a quarter. They pounced on Oakland in the third quarter, turning a botched pitch into a fumble recovery by Mack and a 14-yard TD drive capped by a 1-yard run by rookie David Montgomery that got them back into the game.Chicago didn't stop there, driving 89 yards after forcing a punt to cut the deficit to 17-14 on Daniel's first of two TD passes to Allen Robinson.Those two struck again from 16 yards the first play following Tarik Cohen's 71-yard punt return and Chicago turned that big halftime deficit into a 21-17 lead in a span of 13:34."When we went in at halftime there was no panic https://www.thebearsfanshop.com/Taylor-Gabriel-Jersey ," Daniel said. "There was cool, calm, let's go make a play, and the whole thing was one-play-at-a-time mentality, and I thought we really did that for the most part."That appeared to be enough to send the Bears home happy after Sherrick McManis punched the ball loose from Trevor Davis at the goal line, leading to a recovery by Prince Amukamara at the 1-yard line. A toe-tapping catch by Robinson and a disputed roughing the passer penalty on Maurice Hurst allowed the Bears to move into Oakland territory before stalling again thanks in part to the lack of a running game and poor play from Daniel.Chicago gained just 42 yards on 17 carries, while Daniel threw two interceptions and took four sacks on the day.But that wouldn't have mattered if a usually dominant defense hadn't wilted at the end. Oakland took over at its 3 with 7:49 to go and marched 97 yards for the go-ahead score. The drive was extended when Kevin Pierre-Louis was called for running into the kicker on fourth-and-6 from the Oakland 22.The Raiders called a fake on the next play and Erik Harris gained 3 yards even though the Bears were ready for it."You've still got to stop it," Nagy said. "We knew that it could certainly come. You've got to stop it."The Bears then allowed two long passes to rookie tight end Foster Moreau as the defense failed to generate any pressure and Josh Jacobs leaped in from the 2 for the go-ahead score with 1:57 to play.Daniel completed three passes to get Chicago into Oakland territory before an errant throw was intercepted by Gareon Conley Trey Burton Color Rush Jersey , sealing the defeat for the Bears."I just think we didn't play well, bottom line," Daniel said. "All this stuff, at the end of the day your job is to go out and play football games and top to bottom today we didn't do it.