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Ask Hub: How do you evaluate Year 2 for Bears LB Roquan Smith?

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Prior to his injury, can you evaluate Roquan Smith's year?

This is tough because of the unknown with Roquan’s “personal issues.” Players are absolutely entitled to have and deal with personal issues as much as anybody else, and I’m not going to even begin to speculate what Roquan’s were, but there’s no question something impacted his first half of the season.

He was outstanding in the opener against the Packers, then fell against Denver and Washington before missing the Vikings game, and then was pretty pedestrian vs.