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Austin Booker
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When you watched preseason games last year, the one player who sort of jumped off the screen, albeit against second and third stringers, but the one player who jumped off the screen was Austin Booker. And for a lot of fans and even some media and some respectable national guys, Austin Booker became this sort of potential key to unlock the 2020 for defense. If Montez Sweat played well, which was expected, and Booker could turn into a reliable option on the other side, all of a sudden the Bears would have a formidable defense. The problem is Booker not only didn't amount to that in the 2020 for regular season, he wasn't even given an opportunity to amount to that. He never saw the field in any meaningful way. Well, once again, we're here in the summer, and once again, there's preseason football, and once again, Austin Booker looks like he belongs. So the question now that has to face Dennis Allen and his coaching staff is, are we simply seeing a summer wonder? Are we just seeing a guy who, against inferior competition, looks like a superior player? Or is Austin Booker a player that needs to be in a definitive, consistent rotation come September? I will tell you this, the Bears don't have enough options right now to blow this player off. They don't have enough edge weapons to say, this guy's not worth the shot. Come September in the Minnesota Vikings, Austin Booker should be involved, and he should be involved on third down.