Tramon Williams

NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT Linebacker Jonathan Bostic is a prime example of the value of prospects being in the eye of the beholder. While NFL scouts were concerned about his sideline-to-sideline speed, Chicago Bears general...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT For the first 10 years of his NFL career, weak-side linebacker Lance Briggs lined up next to middle linebacker Brian Urlacher in the Bears' defense. That combination resulted in eight...

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...

The Sports Xchange 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...

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...

Khaseem Greene Round 4, pick 20 (117 overall), linebacker, Rutgers, 6-1, 241 On the field: Greene forced an NCAA-record 15 fumbles with the Scarlet Knights. As a captain last season, he helped Rutgers rank sixth in the nation in rushing defense (97....

The Chicago Bears were seeking a downfield threat in the NFL draft and got a low-risk investment with big upside in Marquess Wilson. It is not common for seventh-round draft picks to pan out as big-time players but before a puzzling 2012 season at...

Transcript of Bears fifth-round draft pick Jordan Mills talking Saturday to the media. On how surprised he was the Bears picked him: “I had a lot of contact with them at the Senior Bowl, at the combine, after the Texas A&M game, even though we...

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...

This class looks pretty enticing to a tackle-needy NFL. Three tackles figure to be top 10 picks. The talent drops off a little after that, but a number of others have enough ability to be starters pretty quickly. As many as a dozen tackles could be chosen...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Men’s College Basketball--Pittsburgh at Rutgers, 10 a.m. (ESPN2); Wake Forest at Duke, 11 a.m. (ESPNU); Purdue at Michigan State, 11 a.m. (Big 10 Network); Texas at Baylor, 1 p.m. (ESPNU); Ohio State at Illinois, 1:15 p.m....

With defensive back Charles Woodson returning from injury, the Packers will have opportunities to pressure Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder on Saturday night in their NFC wild-card game. Think of zone blitz schemes that force the young quarterback...