Luis Medina

He is a guy who has a history with Bears defensive coordinator Dennis Allen.

He's only one year removed from setting the world on fire with leading the league in sacks.

He had an injury-shortened year.

I think there might be questions about how hard he worked to get back this year, especially after how Joe Burrow worked his tail off to come back to a Bengals team that by the time he was back in action was pretty much out of contention.

But when you're a guy who's played as many snaps as Hendrickson has and has been dealing with an injury and knows he's going to free agency, maybe you can understand why he might have slow played his return.

But this isn't to say that Hendrickson is a better player than Max Crosby.

He isn't.

But if you can get a high-caliber pass rusher without trading the farm, that's a path you should probably pursue.

I've been thinking about this because...

This is going to be a hot take right here.

I don't think the Bears need a lockdown left tackle.

The Bears' offense thrived last year despite a rotating door of left tackles.

You had Braxton Jones start the year, and he wasn't great.

He looked off.

He looked like the injury that shoved him last year still hurt him.

Then you're throwing Theo Bennett in, the undrafted second-year player.

Then he gets hurt.

That opens the door for Ozzie Trapilo.

He looked rough in the early going in training camp and in preseason games at left tackle, but you put him next to Joe Tooney, now all of a sudden he looked better, but now he's hurt.

I'm willing to give Theo Benedict another shot because I think Ben Johnson is good enough to scheme around a tackle issue.