INDIANAPOLIS — Mike Ditka once declared that rookie cornerback Donnell Woolford “apparently can’t cover anybody.”
Buddy Ryan stated matter-of-factly after the 1980 season that too many defensive problems were because “that rookie No. 55 [Otis Wilson] just didn’t get it.”
Woolford apparently could cover somebody, and Wilson ultimately did get it, both players going on to very successful Bears careers and Pro Bowls.
Adrian Amos, Eddie Goldman and other very, very young Bears may or may not make Pro Bowls. But they already have figured prominently in Bears offseason personnel deliberations, and coach John Fox is not expected anytime soon to muse, “that No.