Chris Spencer

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT If 2011 first-round pick Gabe Carimi is trying to punch his ticket out of Chicago after two disappointing seasons, he's on the right path. Carimi is absent from OTAs that started this...

NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT In his one season of major-college football, Bears first-round pick Kyle Long started his only five games at left guard. But he lined up exclusively at right guard during the weekend's rookie minicamp...

NFL Team Report - Tennessee Titans - INSIDE SLANT It's no secret that the Titans have to be better in 2013 in order to get coach Mike Munchak and his staff off the proverbial hot seat. A 6-10 finish a year ago led to the dismissal of team COO Mike...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Tennessee Titans - INSIDE SLANT The writing was on the wall for Lavelle Hawkins with the Tennessee Titans. And on Wednesday, the Titans let go of the five-year veteran wide receiver, ridding themselves of his $1.9...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT The last time the Bears drafted a linebacker who was a converted safety -- as they did with this year's fourth-round pick Khaseem Greene -- it turned out pretty well. In 2000 the Bears...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT Most analysts will look at the Bears' first-round pick as a reach for a player who is a project, but that's not the way they see it. Few anticipated the Bears would choose the eighth...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Tennessee Titans - INSIDE SLANT Many of the mock drafts that came along naturally matched up Alabama guard Chance Warmack with the Tennessee Titans, who had the 10th pick in the draft. The Titans' offensive line was...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Tennessee Titans - INSIDE SLANT Before the start of free agency, the Titans seemed like a lock to draft either Alabama guard Chance Warmack or North Carolina guard Jonathan Cooper with their first-round pick, the...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT General manager Phil Emery's approach to his second Bears draft won't be much different than his first, considering they're sitting at No. 20 in the first round, just one spot lower...

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INDIANAPOLIS — Choosing a guard in the NFL draft's first round usually isn't any team's top priority. And it's probably not for the Bears this year. Guards, after all, tend to be looked at as the least valuable members of starting lineups. Some...

There was bright sunshine at Soldier Field on Sunday, as much as we've seen at any game this year. It was considerably darker in the bowels of the stadium in the back room where injured players are laid on tables and poked and prodded, tested, X-rayed...