The Bears have a bad history when it comes to kickers. Chicago's 2018 season ended on a Cody Parkey 'double doink' missed field goal against the Eagles in the NFC wild-card round, and the team's offseason has featured perhaps the strangest kicker competition in league history. But Chicago has now settled on 23-year-old Eddy Pineiro, a Florida product who went undrafted in 2018 after just two seasons with the Gators. Here's what you need to know about the Bears' beacon of kicking hope.
According to Al Michaels, the legendary voice of NBC’s Sunday Night Football, Piniero once “kicked an 81-yard field goal with the wind in practice somewhere" and beat out 500 guys to win a kicking competition at the Nick Saban kicking tryout camp in Alabama a few years ago.