Every year there’s that one guy that kind of comes out of nowhere and creates a buzz for himself during OTAs and training camp. Ideally, we’d like to see that guy explode onto the scene and be an honest to goodness play-maker for the Chicago Bears. But at this point, I think most of us would be happy if an unheralded player can just have himself a solid season.
The Bears do have a few candidates as an offseason surprise type of player, but if we take rookies out of the equation, and we take the really unlikely fringe roster guys out of the equation, then which veterans could end up, when it’s all said and done, that we look back on with appreciative surprise?