Anthony Herron

I mean, not extensively yet.

I mean, certainly, like, I'm sure Alex Coon has watched Logan Jones from Iowa.

You know, he's really good about that.

He's not Tyler Linderbaum, but he had to follow up that Tyler Linderbaum legacy at Iowa as the former defensive lineman who moved over to center and took a little time to figure it out.

Once he figured it out, he played at a really high level.

Could have been probably a mid-round pick a year ago, decided to come back for another season.

He'll likely be a day two draft pick right now.

Where the Bears will have to sort of factor in is now that Caleb is going into his second year of Ben Johnson's offense, are there going to be some of the mental gymnastics that are required pre-snap?

If you add a rookie into that spot, now do you feel like Caleb's at a point...

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.