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Welcome home: Devin Hester, Matt Forte will retire as Bears

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There’s no place like home.

On Wednesday, Bears announced that former players Devin Hester and Matt Forte will sign one-day contracts with the team April 23 to retire as members of the Bears organization.

Both Hester and Forte spent their first eight seasons playing football for Chicago, and their legacy will now be retired in orange and navy.

Hester, a Bear from 2006-13, starting setting records his rookie season by recording five touchdown returns and earning Pro Bowl honors while helping the Bears reach Super Bowl XLI, all in his first year.

In one of his most memorable plays as a Bear, Hester ran back a 92-yard kick return touchdown to start Super Bowl XLI not even 20 seconds into the matchup vs.