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Questions remain for Bears as NFL kicks off annual meeting

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Bears general manager Ryan Poles is entering his second season.

PHOENIX — The Bears are in a different place, with different expectations, than they were at last year’s annual league meeting. One year into a rebuild that started with the hiring of general manager Ryan Poles, they have extra draft picks, the league’s most cap space and a better sense of what quarterback Justin Fields can do.

When Poles sits down Monday at the swanky Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa, though, he’ll still have plenty of questions to answer. Some of them are no different than the ones he failed to solve last year:

• How will the Bears protect Fields?