Dustin Lyman

Is Henry Melton viewed as a system player, only effective as a three technique? Would this keep his price down in free agency? -- Chris Jensen, from Facebook Melton would be coveted by any team that runs a four-man front. He wouldn't have the same kind...

GREEN BAY -- The coaching adage is that a team is never as good as it might look in a victory and never as bad as it might appear in a defeat. Keeping that in mind, we’ll try to maintain perspective with 10 thoughts coming out of another ugly loss...

Tommie Harris' left hand was wrapped tightly as he stood Thursday in front of his locker, arousing curiosity. The truth is Harris slightly injured the hand against Arizona last month and has been wrapping it since as a precaution. But the story he was...

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...

It's New Orleans this week. Home of paper-bag-wearing fans, the Neville and Marsalis clans, crawfish Po' Boys, Girls Gone Wild and Super Bowl XX. Bears 46, Patriots 10. Grab your beignets and café au lait. Aiee! This game's in Champaign, I'm told....

The Bears' foundation—running the ball—cracked severely in their 25-7 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, one of the NFL's poorest run-stopping teams. The Bears' top rusher was backup quarterback Henry Burris, who scrambled for 19 yards in two series of...

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...

Marty Booker was limited to one catch Sunday, his fewest since the third game of last season, as the Lions were determined to make someone else in the Bears' receiver corps beat them. Booker made the one count for a 14-yard touchdown just before...

The Bears, remember them? It seems like ages ago since that Monday night pasting by the Packers. In reality it was only two weeks ago and the Bears and their fans have had the bye week to either dwell on it or forget about it. This week it's the Lions,...

It became clear this week that Bears quarterback Jim Miller may have started his last game this season. Miller will see a specialist next week for further evaluation of the shoulder and elbow tendinitis that has knocked him out of the starting lineup...

If the Bears were any more banged up in the waning moments of Sunday's 24-17 loss to Seattle at Seahawks Stadium, their injury report might have needed a binder. Their offense had just scored to tie the game 17-17 with 4 minutes 12 seconds left on a...

Success in NFL exhibition games cannot be judged by conventional criteria. That is, were any key players injured? Did the rookies embarrass themselves? Did coaches learn anything? And, oh, yeah, did the team win? By those standards, the Bears had an...