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Best and worst of Bears camp: Khalil Mack and Eddy Piñeiro (Eddy Piñeiro?) are the stars of Bourbonnais

After watching Bears training camp for more than a week, Sun-Times expert Patrick Finley analyzes the team’s superlatives thus far:

The most memorable part of training camp thus far …

Eddy Piñeiro having his name chanted by almost 9,000 fans when he made a 63-yard field goal Sunday. Every day, the fans here show the Bears how important finding a kicker is to their psyche.

Like a lot of the quarterbacks that faced the Bears’ dominant defense last year —overmatched for long stretches. Coach Matt Nagy and general manager Ryan Pace talked about the challenges of facing such a unit Thursday, with the coach concluding there isn’t “any other defense in the NFL that I’d rather go against in practice.