When the Chicago Bears decided to let Matt Forte walk into free agency on February 12, 2016, they negligently created a massive hole in their backfield. After a half-hearted attempt (maybe it wasn’t even that) to keep the 2-time Pro Bowler and second best rusher in Bears history (8,602) in Chicago, second-year tailback Jeremy Langford and company see themselves confronted with having shoes to fill worth 1,590 all-purpose yards per year — and I don’t think I have to tell you that those are some big a** shoes.
I’m still not entirely sure what led GM Ryan Pace to believe that Jeremy Langford could replace the workhorse Matt Forte.