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"Backflip kid" Casey Bednarski made a memory trying out to be Bears kicker

Casey Bednarski was one of many stones the Bears didn’t leave unturned in their circuslike exorcising of jettisoned kicker Cody Parkey and the double-doinking demons he conjured with his 43-yard miss in the closing seconds of last year’s playoff loss to the Eagles.

So you’ll have to pardon the awkward silence that followed when a Twin Cities reporter asked Bears coach Matt Nagy this week how the “kid from Mankato” looked during his three-day rookie minicamp tryout four months ago.

To jog Nagy’s memory, the question was rephrased to accentuate Bednarski’s place in a flurry of offseason moves that saw the Bears work out roughly 20 or so kickers, sign four and trade for their current kicker, Eddy Pineiro.