Last week, this series comparing the rosters in the NFC North moved from offense to defense, and the Bears found themselves lacking despite a busy (but somehow unsatisfying) free agency. Now it’s time to round out the secondary and look at safeties.
First, there’s a big question to ask: how does one define “success” at the safety position? To some extent, safeties are dependent on the failure of other members of the team to get stats. After all, if a safety has to make a tackle against a running back, it means that by scheme or failure the rusher has already made it through two layers of defense.