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Bears linebacker D’Marco Jackson couldn’t remember the last time he wore the green-dot helmet, the one that allowed coordinator Dennis Allen to send in the play calls for him to relay to his teammates.
“One game in New Orleans,” he said. “Maybe.”
If so, it was in relief. The journeyman special teams ace made his first career start Sunday, playing middle linebacker in place of Tremaine Edmunds, whom the Bears put on injured reserve a day earlier.
Rookie Ruben Hyppolite II made his own first career start, filling in for weak-side linebacker T.