Bears Rookie Minicamp Primer: Passing Connection Debuts

The only thing less important to football fans than organized team activities and all off-season voluntary or mandatory practice is rookie minicamp. The Bears have rookie minicamp Friday and Sunday and a group of players will wear jersey numbers that actually belong to someone else. At the end, a few of the players involved on a tryout basis will be brought back for OTAs and virtually none of the undrafted free agents signed after Saturday will make the final 53-man roster. For every Cameron Meredith—a receiver who had a Bears and NFL career after coming to a rookie minicamp on a tryout—there are literally hundreds in the same classification at rookie camps who will never be on any team's 53-man roster.