It took quite awhile before Chicago Bears tight end Zach Miller comfortably found his niche in the NFL. And even when he did, as he has relatively at Halas Hall now, it has to feel like someone is deliberately ripping opportunity from his grasp with the Bears clearly building towards the future given their 2017 offseason haul. To better understand Miller’s current predicament, you have to take a look at his winding road to get to this current impasse.
Before carving out a place with the Bears, Miller, a former sixth-round pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2009, already saw long odds as a professional given draft positioning anyway.