Devin Hester’s injury opened the door for 25-year old Devin Aromashodu who in his first six games with the Bears caught only 2 passes for 16 yards (8.0 avg).  But, in his last three games Aromashodu has caught 17 passes for 236 yards (13.9 avg) with 2 TD grabs for the Bears.  Previous to this season with the Bears he had played in only 6 games in which he caught 7 passes for 96 yards (13.7 avg).  It looks like the Bears have a keeper in Aromashodu proving that sometimes injuries open doors for players that teams’ never knew they had.

25-year old cornerback Zack Bowman has really stepped up this season for the Bears.  He has played in 14 games for the Bears this season and he has made 55 tackles, defensed 7 passes, forced 1 fumble and he has 5 interceptions.  The Bears are glad to see Bowman step up because they have had issues on defense this season.

29-year old linebacker Lance Briggs has not slowed down one bit this season.  He has played in 13 games for the Bears this season and he has 100 tackles, 4 tackles for a loss, 2.5 sacks, 5 passes defensed and 1 interception.  Briggs now has six straight seasons of 100+ tackles for the Bears and the hope is that he and Brian Urlacher will lead a much improved Bears’ D in 2010.

23-year old undrafted rookie running back Khalil Bell should be more involved in the offense the last couple of weeks.  With Matt Forte still struggling it would make sense to give Bell a shot to show what he can really do.  Bell has played in 5 games for the Bears this season and he has carried the ball 25 times for 155 yards (6.2 ypc) and he has also caught 1 pass for 4 yards.  The Bears’ season is pretty much over so it wouldn’t hurt to see what they have in Bell.

The Bears really found themselves a player when they picked 23-year old WR Johnny Knox out of Abilene Christian in the fifth round of last April’s NFL Draft.  Knox has played in all 10 games for the Bears this season and he has caught 32 passes for 376 yards (11.8 avg) with 3 TD grabs.  Knox has also excelled on special teams as he has returned 25 kickoffs for 699 yards (28.0 avg) with a TD return (102 yarder).  It’s good drafting to find a guy in the fifth round that is averaging 107.5 all purpose yards per game in his rookie season.  The Bears have high hopes for Knox in the future.