When Kindle Vildor was growing up in Atlanta, he was rooting for Falcons cornerback Desmond Trufant. Now he’s trying to take his job.
“It’s actually crazy because he’s in Atlanta and I’m from Atlanta, so when the Falcons drafted him, I was a freshman in high school,” said Vildor, the Bears’ second-year cornerback from Georgia Southern. “I was watching Falcons games growing up and I was a big fan of him. So now that he’s on my team, it’s crazy how everything works.”
Vildor and Trufant are sharing first-team reps in competition for the starting cornerback job opposite Jaylon Johnson.