Matt Forte has been called the "Stephen Curry" of the NFL by Adrian Peterson.

“Matt Forte. What would I call him? I would call him Stephen Curry. Mr. Dependable. That’s what I would call him,” Peterson told Chicago reporters.

Peterson’s comments on Forte come a few weeks after Peterson settled a friendly debate with Jamaal Charles, who called himself the “LeBron James” of the NFL during training camp in August.

"I'll say I'm the Michael Jordan,'' Peterson said on a recent conference call with Kansas City-area media. "There's always the debate, would LeBron be better than Michael? So I'll say I'm the Michael Jordan of football.''

Forte, 29, is currently fourth in yards from scrimmage and sixth in rushing yards through six games in 2015.

The Chicago Bears released veteran defensive lineman Jeremiah Ratliff and signed defensive lineman Ziggy Hood, the team announced Thursday.

"We felt moving forward without Jeremiah was in the best interest of our team," Bears general manager Ryan Pace said in a prepared statement. "We appreciate his contributions and wish him well."

Ratliff, dressed in Bears warm-up clothes, and Pace were observed having an animated conversation in front of Halas Hall around 11:30 a.m. CT while the rest of the team was on the practice field. The exact nature of Ratliff and Pace's conversation is unknown, though sources told the Chicago Tribune that team officials judged that Ratliff arrived not in a condition to work. Two team security guards stood only a couple of feet away during the conversation.

A squad car from an area police department was seen patrolling the Halas Hall grounds at approximately 3 p.m.

The NFL suspended Ratliff for the first three games of the regular season for violating the league's substance abuse policy.

Alshon Jeffery will miss Week 4 as he continues to work on returning from a hamstring injury.

Jeffery also sat out Weeks 1 and 2.

Jeffery missed almost a month this preseason with a calf injury and now is dealing with this secondary issue.