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To complete the roster, Poles has six draft picks and then will add a combination of veteran free agents and undrafted rookies to reach the 90-man limit, likely by early May. Even if the Bears add 15 undrafted rookies, which would be a high number, that would leave them with close to nine spots for veterans and street free agents, most of whom will sign one-year deals for the minimum or close to it.

Three people were treated on-scene for smoke inhalation, but no one — resident or firefighter — was injured in the blaze, Smith said. Fourteen residents have been displaced because of smoke and water damage to their apartments, he said, and only the man’s apartment and the one directly above it were destroyed.

“It’s just about communicating to those guys and making sure I’m getting ahead of that,” Ross said. “The other thing that I try not to do, one of my things is if you go deep the day before you’re not sitting the next day, so I told him that, like, ‘Hey, you hit a home run today, and I’m going to go against everything in my gut.’ But it makes the most sense long term.”