Bill Lazor might have had Mitch Trubisky’s phone number before any other coach in the NFL. As Virginia’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2010-12, he visited Mentor (Ohio) High School to recruit the quarterback.
He had little interaction with him again — short of attending the NFL Scouting Combine and visiting Halas Hall last year — until he took the Bears’ offensive coordinator job in January.
John DeFilippo studied Trubisky two years ago, preparing to interview for a Bears head coaching job that eventually went to Matt Nagy. He didn’t cross paths with Trubisky again until he became the Bears’ quarterbacks coach five months ago.