Bobby Gray

A look at how each player on the 2003 roster came to be a Bear. Thirty-two of the 53 players on the active roster (60.4%) were either draftees of the Bears or undrafted free agents signed with the Bears. Only one player (R.W. McQuarters) was acquired via...

James "Big Cat" Williams ran his streak of consecutive starts to 121 when he opened at right tackle Sunday against New Orleans. Williams' status was in doubt up until game time after he injured his left hip against Atlanta last week and then missed...

Arizona: 1 (12) Wendell Bryant, dt, Wisconsin; 2 (49) Levar Fisher, lb, North Carolina State; 3 (81) Josh McCown, qb, Sam Houston State; 3 (98) Dennis Johnson, de, Kentucky; 4 (113) Nate Dwyer, dt, Kansas; 5 (149) Jason McAddley, wr, Alabama; 6 (185) Josh...

Lovie Smith spent Saturday afternoon making a statement about what brand of football the Bears will emphasize during his tenure, and his team spent the early part of Saturday evening backing him up. Hours after the new coach told wide receiver Marty...

Greetings from Mo-Town. The big story in town is the Lions are trying to win two games in a row for the first time since the advent of the forward pass. Everyone's picking the Lions because they're at home and the Bears haven't exactly done anything on...

With his arms extended and his palms facing the sky, quarterback Chris Chandler made the universal signal for "huh?" as he looked toward the Bears' sideline. Seven seconds remained in Sunday's 23-21 loss to the St. Louis Rams, and the Bears had run out...

She returned there on a sweltering summer day, to the place that some people had called hell and some people had called hallowed ground but that she had simply come to think of as the place where she had discovered her own lost soul. "There," she said,...

If this had been a street football game, Drew Bledsoe would have told his top receiver to run 15 yards beyond the parked car in Mr. Smith's driveway, spin around the lamp post and look over his right shoulder for the football. This was no street football...

A perfect, early fall Minneapolis evening is wasted in this plastic palace. Outside, the Loverboy was cranking, the Webers were alit and the purple jerseys were everywhere. There were a few bold souls wandering around the streets brave enough to don the...

The Bears spent Monday much the same way they did the previous two Mondays—assessing injuries, contemplating personnel moves and getting ready for the next game. Except without the glow of a victory. With local angst rising, the Bears were left to...

It was not the kind of unveiling the Bears were seeking. After a 13-3 season in 2001, the Bears bumbled through a less-than-auspicious start to what they believe should be a Super Bowl season, losing 27-3 Saturday night to the Denver Broncos in their...

Marc Colombo Position: Left tackle. Pick: 1st round, 29th overall. School: Boston College. Height, weight: 6 feet 7 inches, 313 pounds. Quick look: Massive physical blocker expected to win starting left tackle job, replacing released vet Blake...