Danny Trevathan is starting to play more consistently for the Chicago Bears
After the first week of the 2020 season, there were serious questions about what level Danny Trevathan could back to. The Chicago Bears significantly reduced his playing time after his struggles, but when he played just as poorly in week 2, red flags were up.
However, as he has eased into the season, there is a relief that perhaps the first couple of games were his preseason of sorts to shake the rust off. Trevathan has not been back to his old self, but he has been much better in the past three weeks, and the Chicago Bears needed it.
In the past two weeks without Deon Bush, the Bears did not decide to have DeAndre Houston-Carson come in and reduce Trevathan playing in coverage nearly as much. Per PFF, Trevathan had 32, and 34 snaps in coverage in the past two weeks.
In weeks 2-4 he has 20,27, and 21 snaps in coverage. It was clear that they were taking him out In obvious pass downs. On Sunday, they did not.
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In fact, Trevathan played 85% of the team’s snaps, which is the highest since week one when he played 89.7%. Every other week he has been off of the field for over 20% of the snaps.
Fortunately for the Bears, Trevathan has rewarded them. He did get beat over the middle for a catch to Trenton Cannon, but Sunday was his best day in coverage. He posted his lowest yards after the catch per reception mark.
Beyond that, he had a season-high nine tackles and season-high seven-run stops. Trevathan is not expected to be an ace in coverage, but he has to make quarterbacks second guess. That is all he did on Sunday.
Trevathan was brought back because of how lethal and efficient he was in the run game. When Adrian Peterson and Ronald Jones are going for season highs you can blame Eddie Goldman, but Trevathan is here to contain big runs.
The play below is everything you want to see out of Trevathan. He works downhill, throws off the blocker and fills the gap.
You can find plays like this littered through Trevathan’s play on Sunday. He shut down Mike Davis, who had been excellent so far since Carolina lost Christian McCaffrey. If the rest of the season for Trevathan is like the last three, and not the first three, the Chicago Bears will be just fine.