Zach Miller was able to play in 15 games last season, starting a career-best 14 and earning himself a new two-year contract with the Bears, who were willing to gamble on a player who’d started exactly five games since 2009 because of myriad injuries.
Part of the reason is invariably luck, as it is with so many injuries. But a major component lay in changes in staff and practices implemented along with the arrival of Ryan Pace as general manager.
What those changes are and what the Bears are doing consist of ... Miller ain’t sayin’.