Despite being 8-3 and atop the NFC North, the Chicago Bears have spent nearly the entire fall searching for stability along an offensive line that has been shuffled, reshuffled, and rebuilt in real time.
Through injuries, schematic tweaks, and the natural growing pains of a young signal-caller in a new offense, one position has remained particularly unsettled: left tackle.
But in Week 12, against a Pittsburgh Steelers defensive front loaded with experience and production, rookie Ozzy Trapilo delivered the kind of performance that forces a recalibration of expectations -- for both the present and the long-term future in Chicago.