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where he can handle taking the lead on setting protections and IDing the mic and making a lot of the pre-snap adjustments for the offensive line.

If you don't feel great about a rookie center stepping into the extremely voluminous and versatile Ben Johnson offense and having your center worry about that as much, Caleb in year two will have a lot more of that on his plate.

If they feel like they're all good with it, then that's where the comfort with putting a rookie into that spot can be enhanced.

But if not, to have a vet in there, even though the vet isn't necessarily going to know Ben Johnson's offense, but that vet will know NFL defenses.

And one thing is just as important as the other.

You not only have to know what you're doing, you definitely got to know what the opponent is trying to throw at you as well.

That's the other level of this that I was referencing and then sort of come back around to with DJ Moore because the one aspect of it is evaluating where the Bears view DJ Moore at and his fit moving forward.

But the other level to it is also faith that's being placed in the young playmakers that remains.

And think about it.

I know I've spoken to you, Lawrence.

I might have spoken to you about it at some point here recently, too, speaks to me.

Think about DK Metcalf and the Seahawks deciding to move on from him.

And then you get the emergence of Jackson Smith and Jigba.

I don't know if any of them really thought he could have been the record breaker that he became this season, but they felt like they had to do.

There's no doubt about that.

And that added to their comfort to move on from DK Metcalf.

Do the Bears feel like that about Roma Dunze or about Luther Burden?

You would certainly imagine they feel pretty good about Colston Loveland as well.

Or is it just the triumvirate of them that they feel really good about their ability to not only run the football, but also the receiving the pass catching threats that they have out there?

Out of all of them, just as a pure wideout, Luther Burton, to me, showed more promise in his rookie season this year than we've seen as an overall playmaker than Roma Dunzay.