Darion Clark, the former USC basketball player whom the Bears signed to a free agent deal this offseason, walked down the path that winds from Halas Hall to the team’s backfields Monday morning. At 8:47, he became the first Bears player to step on the grass for their first padded practice of training camp — and first serious practice of any kind since Dec 27.
About 20 minutes later, he was joined by, among others, Mitch Trubisky and Nick Foles, two quarterbacks whose play will define the Bears season. Presuming, in the time of coronavirus, that there is a season.