Wednesday begins a two-week window in which Bears general manager Ryan Pace must decide whether to apply the franchise tag once again to free-agent wide receiver Alshon Jeffery for a second straight year.
At Pace's last meeting with the media a little more than two weeks ago at the Senior Bowl, he said he had not had discussions with Jeffery's representation since the end of the season. That's undergone adjustments since the passing of prominent agent Eugene Parker last March 31, though Jeffery has remained with the same renamed, restructured agency.
The next time Pace is tentatively scheduled to meet with reporters is on that deadline to tag Jeffery, March 1, at the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.