Bears linebacker Jerrell Freeman sat at his locker, his eyes wide, his smile broad.
“People don’t know this,” he said, letting a few reporters into a team secret. “But [John] Timu might be one of the smartest people we have on our team.”
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“It’s good to have a guy like that beside you,” he said. “To have a guy like that on the practice squad? I trust him as soon as he lines up. I call him Shooter McGavin because he knows what to do and he’s going to shoot it. He’s going to shoot it faster than I will sometimes, you know what I mean?