Chicago Bears MVP Watch: Top 4 Players on the Team
Published by Timothy Hockemeyer on October 4, 2011
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Chicago Bears
Bears head coach Lovie Smith likes to break the season down in quarters and the first quarter of the 2011 Bears schedule has the Bears sitting at .500 after the most grueling September schedule any team in the league had to face this year.
Coming out of the first four games with a 2-2 record, the Bears are already in a two-game hole behind the perfect Packers and Lions.
But it could be worse. The Bears managed to topple the Falcons and the upstart Panthers and made some progress along the way in figuring out what they must do to win games.
As the first quarter of the season winds away in the rear-view, it’s time to take a look at the players who had the most to do with the Bears successes so far.
These are the four players that would be in the hunt for the team MVP award were the season to end today, and make no mistake about it, they are all deserving.
Before we profile the MVP front-runners, let’s take a second to give a shout-out to injured safety Chris Harris. Why? Because it was a struggle to keep him off the list.
How does a player who only saw the season opener from the field get consideration?
Well, if the play of the safeties in his absence, and the secondary as a whole, is any indication of how important Harris is to the team, then Chris is indispensable.
Chris wanted a new contract before the season started, and he couldn’t make a better statement about his value than to let the Bears watch his backups try to fill his shoes or to watch what the secondary as a whole looks like without his leadership.
And now on to the MVP front-runners.
