Johnny Knox

NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT Linebacker Jonathan Bostic is a prime example of the value of prospects being in the eye of the beholder. While NFL scouts were concerned about his sideline-to-sideline speed, Chicago Bears general...

For a guy who says he would like things to remain the same, Lance Briggs sure has embraced change. The weak-side linebacker has become the signal caller of the defense, a chore generally reserved for middle linebackers. But Briggs, preparing for his...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT For the first 10 years of his NFL career, weak-side linebacker Lance Briggs lined up next to middle linebacker Brian Urlacher in the Bears' defense. That combination resulted in eight...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT If 2011 first-round pick Gabe Carimi is trying to punch his ticket out of Chicago after two disappointing seasons, he's on the right path. Carimi is absent from OTAs that started this...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT In his one season of major-college football, Bears first-round pick Kyle Long started his only five games at left guard. But he lined up exclusively at right guard during the weekend's...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT The last time the Bears drafted a linebacker who was a converted safety -- like this year's fourth-round pick Khaseem Greene -- it turned out pretty well. That was in 2000, when the...

After a busy free-agent period, the Bears have a new man running their pro personnel department. Kevin Turks, who has been with the franchise since 2001, was promoted into the role Friday, sources in the scouting community said. Turks replaces Chris...

As Phil Emery prepares for his second Bears draft, he would be wise to study his predecessor Jerry Angelo. The Bears will pick in the first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth rounds of the 2013 draft. RedEye takes a look at Angelo's best and worst from...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT Most analysts will look at the Bears' first-round pick as a reach for a player who is a project, but that's not the way they see it. Few anticipated the Bears would choose the eighth...

My issue isn’t that Bears General Manager Phil Emery has fewer draft picks than he has positional needs. Every GM has fewer picks than he has needs. Just ask them. But for those of you keeping score at home, Tribune football guru Dan Pompei did...

Dan, do you see Marc Trestman replacing Johnny Knox with another speedy receiver in the draft? I really believe that he was a major missing piece of their offense since his catastrophic injury. I just don't think Trestman will find another one in free...

Perhaps lost in the shuffle of the Bears' offseason moves was their decision to part ways with Johnny Knox, and his immediate retirement.  Here was a receiver entering the prime of his career, at age 26, on a team that could use all the reliable targets...