One of the things that I pride myself on, after 20 years of covering the Chicago Bears, is that I am never persuaded by anything I hear or see in the summer. None of it matters to me in the slightest. Keep guys healthy, get guys practice reps, learn the offense, learn the defense. None of it really matters, though, until they start keeping score. For years, I have heard optimism. Hey, we think this team's going to be good this year. I've heard pessimism. We're skeptical of X player, Y player, whatever. With rookies, that tends to be, at least in my experience, almost exaggerated. You hear, this guy's not ready at all, and he tends to be ready. You hear, this guy looks like he's completely lost, and sometimes he turns into a good player. This week, I have heard from multiple people, and they have said the same thing to me. And what they have said is that Luther Burden is a player. No flamboyant language, no exaggerated tones, no lofty statistical expectations for his rookie year. I have simply heard, in just straightforward language, Luther Burden is a player. And I will tell you, one of the people I have heard that from is in a different organization. The Bears think they may have stumbled onto one here. Now, who knows what that means come Sundays, come September. But right now, there's a bit of a buzz around Luther Burden. He might be one of the real ones.