Chicago recently announced their undrafted rookie free agent class and held their rookie minicamp. One of the recently signed undrafted rookies, former Utah State return specialist Savon Scarver, has been cut, according to Aaron Wilson of Pro Football Network.
Scarver was a consensus All-American return man. In five years with the Aggies, Scarver had seven kickoff return touchdowns, making sure to return at least one a year, even in the team’s COVID-shortened, four-game 2020 season. He added 757 yards receiving and 5 receiving touchdowns to his stat sheet, but he was mainly seen as a special teamer at the next level.
Along with their 16 announced UDFAs, the Bears invited 36 other undrafted players for rookie tryouts at minicamp. Among those 36, was Western Michigan defensive back A.J. Thomas. Thomas played safety for most of his career with the Broncos, but switched to linebacker for his final season.
It appears that he was asked to participate in Chicago as a defensive back. Regardless, at the conclusion of rookie minicamp, the Bears agreed to sign him as an undrafted free agent, according to Wilson.
fire poles rn, were tired of this total BS!
Fire him because he cut a UDFA that he took a look at and decided he wasn’t good enough? That is ridiculous.
In this league, in this time. Your not allowed to make mistakes llike that!
Lol cubswin, I was one calling for poles to be fired because he didn’t draft an early receiver, but I’ve come around to the fact that we are gonna have a nice secondary for the first time since 2018, scarver was just a returner had like 10 total catches over his final 2 years in college…if that’s your skillset you better be great at all 4 phases of the kick/return game
I dont have a problem with the draft, it was pretty good. But this… just unbelieveable.
Football may not be your thing
They invited 36 players to rookie tryouts?
That sounds like auditions for a high school musical.
New regime allowed a lot of players to walk. Didn’t sign a bunch of FA’s. Had to sign a ton of guys to get to the 90 man roster limit
I think it was the Jets that invited like 54 rookies PLUS two vets, PLUS their draft picks AND their UDFAs…
So, idk, I don’t think it is that uncommon…I just think maybe we don’t really hear about it that much, because the vast majority of guys brought in to compete never make it…
I’m going to take a wild guess that the Bears decided on this scratch and substitution strategy after watching an 80-1 longshot win the Kentucky Derby.
Georgie, you are one lost soul.)
If we can find diamonds in the rough right now, I’ll take it because the Bears are pretty rough.
How confident are we that the Bears could tell the difference between diamonds and cubic zirconia?