Bears' Trevathan doesn't think he should be suspended for Adams hit

Danny Trevathan is sorry for his hit on Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams, but doesn't think it was deserving of a suspension.

The Chicago Bears linebacker laid out Adams with a helmet-to-helmet hit in the third quarter of Thursday night's game that resulted in Adams being stretchered off the field. Afterward, Trevathan insisted he was simply "trying to make a play'" and didn't feel he should be suspended.

“We’ll see,” Trevathan said, according to Mark Potash of The Chicago Sun Times. “I don’t think it should be a suspension. But you never know. I’m just going to send my prayers out. My main concern is that he’s OK."

“I was just trying to make a play. It wasn’t intentional,” Trevathan added. “I was just trying to hustle to the ball and do my job. Unfortunately, he ended up hurt. I’m sorry about that. And I’m going to reach out to him and send him a message. Because we play a physical game, but you never wish that on anybody.

“I regret the level I hit him at. I could have been a little bit better. But you’ve got to understand, I was in a momentum and I was just trying to make a play. Unintentionally it happens in this game. Hopefully they see that … I was just trying to make a play.”

Trevathan was given a 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness on the play, but was permitted to stay in the game.

Adams was able to give a thumbs-up signal to the crowd as he was taken off the field, and Packers head coach Mike McCarthy stated that everything looked positive regarding the receiver's status after the game.