It wouldn’t rank with the sting of seeing Jim McMahon, Steve McMichael and other former Bears donning Green Bay Packer green and gold. But another player with Bears ties is impressing a Packers staff and could come back to haunt the Bears sometime down the line.
Quarterback Matt Blanchard, an undrafted free agent out of Lake Zurich and Wisconsin-Whitewater and who stuck with the Bears’ practice squad in 2012 before spending parts of 2013 and 2014 with the Carolina Panthers practice squad, moved Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy to issue more than just platitudes as the Packers and Blanchard went through their final minicamp of the offseason.