If there is any solace to be taken away from the 2016 season, it’s knowing that the Green Bay Packers collapsed in another NFC championship game. Their incredible run of winning just two Super Bowls with arguably two of the greatest quarterbacks ever goes on. That being said, there may yet be something that puts a fly in that lotion. It has to do with Chicago Bears draft picks.
That’s an unusual statement to make isn’t it? After all the draft isn’t until late April. Months away. How can that have any sort of emotional impact on Bears fans at this point? Simply by stating this unavoidable fact nobody wants to hear.
Shea McClellin is going to the Super Bowl.
Local Super Bowl LI storyline: Phil Emery (Falcons national scout) and Shea McClellin (Patriots LB) reunited in the Super Bowl.
— Zach Zaidman (@ZachZaidman) January 23, 2017
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That’s right. The former first round pick of the Bears in 2012, the one whose lone career highlight was breaking Aaron Rodgers’ collarbone, who looked totally lost for most of his four years in town, will have a shot at a ring. The fact that it’s happening his first year away from Chicago makes it sting even more.
It also raises another question. How many other former Bears draft picks managed to get a ring only after leaving the Bears?
