In this year’s NFC North, ‘there is no favorite’

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Robert Tonyan, then with the Packers, catches a ball against the Bears in 2020.Robert Tonyan is used to being the favorite in his division.

In the five seasons he played tight end with the Packers, they won the NFC North three times. They beat the Bears nine times out of 10, went 5-5 against the Lions and 5-4-1 against the Vikings. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers won two MVPs.

But Rodgers is gone and Tonyan is a Bear. The division is there for the taking, he said, for all four teams.

“It’s wide open,” Tonyan said this week after a mandatory minicamp practice. “That’s the best part. Everyone is young. Everyone is new. You have good players on every team. That’s the…