Six-time Pro Bowl center Olin Kreutz was two years into his Bears career the first time he went to block Brian Urlacher in the rookie linebacker’s first camp, ahead of the 2000 season.
“We all saw how big and fast ‘Lach was,” Kreutz told NBC Sports Chicago, “but we were thinking maybe he wasn’t going to work out, because they’d moved him to linebacker from safety, where he’d played in college. At that time, there wasn’t a lot of linebackers I couldn’t jump out and ‘hook’ on an outside-zone play. I’d take an angle and it was an easy block for me, one of my better blocks.