Why Brian Urlacher will be a first-ballot NFL Hall of Famer

MARK POTASH: Brian Urlacher wasn’t the best Bears linebacker of all time — there’s only one Dick Butkus. Urlacher arguably rates somewhere between Bill George and Mike Singletary in the pantheon of the Bears linebackers. But so what? Theodore Roosevelt is no Abraham Lincoln. But he’s still on Mount Rushmore.

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