The Bears are still waiting on wide receiver Anthony Miller’s breakout.
This is the second year in a row that coaches came into a season promising he’d be new and improved after two seasons of holding their “breath hoping that he was gonna go to the right place,” as position coach Mike Furrey put it. They’ve said they couldn’t trust him to know the playbook and be in the right spot, but now he’s past that problem.
Is he, though? Miller’s playing time has dipped from 64% of the snaps last season to 52% through the first four games of this one, and he is consistently playing slightly less than rookie Darnell Mooney.