The youngsters have come and gone during Danny Trevathan’s five seasons at inside linebacker for the Bears, and he has fought off every one of them. Even when the draft-and-develop plan materialized beautifully with Nick Kwiatkoski, the Bears let him walk and paid Trevathan instead.
It’s surprising, then, that the newest — and perhaps most threatening — challenger arrived in the form of a peer. It’s not a feisty, fresh-faced upstart trying to pry into his playing time this season. It’s ninth-year veteran Alec Ogletree, an accomplished almost-30-year-old on whom the rest of the NFL had given up.