I might just have to watch the Bears with Steltz starting & Urlacher coming back....maybe I wasn't hallucinating after all..look at what they had to say about Alfalva at the end. Steltz will be under-that special microscope dwf's use to remove uhalf-step slow whitey in the secondary! GO STELTZ!
Steltz, Wright Running with the Ones
by John M. Crist of BearReport.com, August 1, 2010 at 8:56pm ET
Craig Steltz Profile
It seems like the Bears have tried almost anyone and everyone at either safety position since the departed
Mike Brown started to fall apart on a yearly basis, and coach
Lovie Smith was emphatic all offseason long that his defense needed to get improved play from the safeties in 2010.
But even though he was a fourth-round pick in the 2008 NFL Draft out of LSU, a school that has produced some quality safeties recently,
Craig Steltz has only started two games in two seasons.
Talking to reporters following Sunday's training camp workout in Bourbonnais, coach
Lovie Smith said Steltz has probably deserved more of an opportunity than he has gotten so far in his Bears career.
"I think we need to just continue to give Craig opportunities," admitted Smith. "He's probably one of the guys around here that can say he hasn't really had a chance to really prove what he can do on the field. Normally, if you stay around and continue to make plays, you'll do that. He's done it. He did it all throughout the offseason."
Now that starting free safety
Chris Harris is out for an undetermined period of time with a back injury, not only did Steltz finally getting some time with the first-team D Sunday, but so did rookie
Major Wright.
"When guys like Chris Harris go down," Smith said, "it gives a player like Craig, a player like Major Wright an opportunity, and I've noticed both of those guys."
On the other hand, one former starter still toiling near the bottom of the depth chart is second-year pro
Al Afalava, who the coaching staff suddenly seams to have forgotten about â€" perhaps for good reason.
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