Roquan Smith arrived at Halas Hall for rookie minicamp dealt with some closure on the theft of his team-issued iPad and personal belongings, as police in Athens apprehended a 20-year-old Georgia student accused of the crime.
That wasn’t the way Smith hoped to make headlines two weeks into his time with the Bears, but he said all the right things when it came to football on Friday at Halas Hall.
Not unfairly, Smith has already been anointed as a starting linebacker for the 2018 Bears — if he’s not come Sept. 9 in Green Bay, it would raise questions about what Ryan Pace (and, to be fair, plenty of other general managers) missed in evaluating him.