INDIANAPOLIS -- There’s no guarantee Notre Dame guard Quenton Nelson will still be on the board when the Bears pick at No. 8, but it would be an ideal fit, and not just because the Bears badly need an interior offensive lineman.
Selecting the 6-foot-5, 329-pound Nelson would reunite him with Harry Hiestand, his position coach at Notre Dame the past four years and now the Bears’ O-line coach.
Nelson was jokingly asked if continuing his relationship with Hiestand would be a happy reunion or if he was tired of the highly regarded taskmaster.
“It would definitely be a good thing to be with coach Hiestand,” Nelson said with a laugh.