Bears vs. Broncos Practice recap: Anthony Miller catches six balls at once and throws a punch

Chicago Bears’ rookie wide out Anthony Miller has already reached a certain level of respect amongst Bears fans. The former walk-on at Memphis has endeared himself with his work ethic, attitude, and an outstanding training camp. He’s expected to immediately slide into big role in Matt Nagy’s offense along with fellow receiving newcomers Taylor Gabriel, Allen Robinson, and Trey Burton.

This new quartet of pass catchers will give quarterback Mitchell Trubisky the weapons he needs to execute Nagy’s system.

Miller can either play outside or in the slot, it all depends on the matchup they’re looking for. At Memphis, he was asked to return punts on occasion, so he’s been working in with Chicago’s punt return drills in the last month. Today he took part in a carryover drill from last year, the ‘how many consecutive punts can you catch without dropping one?’ game.

Miller catching six is something you need to see to believe.

Miller’s day wasn’t all fun and games.

Former Bear, Olin Kreutz, loved the fire from the rookie. “Man, I like this Miller!”

Unfortunately, no video has leaked of the fight, but reports have it as no big deal.

What was a big deal was the shotgun snaps from Cody Whitehair, who had some issues for the second day in a row. “Some errant snaps from Cody Whitehair are standing out again,” tweeted the Chicago Sun Times’ Adam Jahns. He also said it was “throwing off Mitch Trubisky’s timing.”

His quarterback has his back, though.

I wonder if the presence of second round draft pick, center James Daniels, has gotten into Whitehair’s head and he’s subconsciously readying himself for a move to left guard.

And that concludes the amateur psychobabble portion of this article.

Now on to a few tweets from practice.

Eddie Goldman on the sled.

Rookie Roquan Smith looks good out there.