Chicago Bears training camp turned a week old today. Head Coach Ben Johnson celebrated the occasion by ratcheting the intensity, telling reporters this morning before practice that they would hear the pads cracking more today.

Multiple people in attendance today confirmed that the cracking of pads was indeed heard, including Greg Braggs Jr., who tweeted that rookie wide receiver Luther Burden III took a big hit from linebacker Noah Sewell early in team drills—which Burden finally participated in today.

But football noises weren’t the story of the day in Lake Forest; it was the quarterback, who, by many accounts, had his best day of practice thus far.

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