4 free agents who played under Matt Eberflus and Ryan Poles

Most of the time when a team signs a free agent you find there is some connection from the coaching staff or some reason why the team is interested. Especially in the case of the Chicago bears, with a new General Manager, a new head coach, and not many roster spots locked down, you will see familiar faces come into the fold to help instill the new culture.

With that in mind, we have had some articles highlight players with a familiarity with the coaching staff and front office. Of course, because Matt Eberflus and Ryan Poles did not work together it is not often you hear of the players that both of them have worked with. In the case of these four players, you can say that.

4. Anthony Hitchens knows many faces with the Chicago Bears

Anthony Hitchens is the first name that is strongly connected to both groups. He started his career with the Dallas Cowboys, and that meant being drafted into a room that featured Matt Eberflus. After spending four seasons with Eberflus, he wound up spending the next four with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Fans and media had questions of whether or even how Ryan Poles and Matt Eberflus knew each other, with speculation that the duo was an arraigned marriage.  Poles says that they met through common networking across the NFL, and one of those things could be that Poles was calling Eberflus to get information on a free agent that the team was interested in.

Either way, Poles saw the intensity that Hitchens learned from Eberflus, and the common connection between the two is enough to raise eyebrows. The Chicago Bears also happen to have a hole next to Roquan Smith.