Kevin White could miss the entire 2015 season due to injury. White will have surgery and begin the season on the physically unable to perform (PUP) list.

White told reporters the shin injury wasn’t a stress fracture -- he was “adamant” about this, according to the Chicago Tribune -- and “the game plan for me is to play as soon as possible,” he said, according to the Tribune. A Sun-Times reporter tweeted that White said, “If it was up to me, I would have been on the field.”

Ryan Pace called a morning press conference on Saturday to reveal White is will be having surgery on a stress fracture in his left shin and is out for at least the first six weeks of the season, maybe until Week 11.

The Bears had been misleading the media on the injury throughout training camp and White lied on Friday.