Familiar Situation for Tyrique Stevenson and Tyler Scott

Tyler Scott lined up for a play in Bears rookie minicamp and there was Tyrique Stevenson was across from him.

Both could have been forgiven for yawning. Same old, same old.

"I trained with him for the whole three months up until the draft," Stevenson said.

These two were on opposing teams in college, Scott at Cincinnati and Stevenson for Miami after he played at Georgia. They knew each other before the draft because they were working out at House of Athlets in Tampa, but who could have thought they'd get drafted to the same team?

"We actually met in Tampa, and I remember I seen him and I was like, 'Man, this dude looks familiar. I don't know where I seen him from,'" Scott said.

They actually were matched up long before those Tampa workouts unbeknownst to each other.

"I just kept looking at him and I'm like, 'Man, where you from?' " Scott said. "He's like, 'Well, I went to Miami.' I'm like, 'OK, I don't know anybody in Miami.'

"And then he mentioned he played at Georgia before and I was like, 'That's where I know you from.' "

Cincinnati played Georgia in the Peach Bowl when Scott was a freshman and he was guarded by, yes, Stevenson.

"And the guy that was guarding me, that was at the time No. 7, was him," Scott said. "I think (Green Bay's Eric) Stokes, one of their starting corners, had opted out. But it was him (Stevenson)."

So they had one connection, then the other at HOA and then came draft day.

 "So we just kinda bonded from there, worked together through training, created a nice, tight bond between each other, and I seen he got drafted by Chicago, and then I got drafted, and was like, 'Oh shoot, Tyrique, he got drafted to Chicago, too,' " Scott said. "So we connected and it's been pretty cool seeing him out with a couple reps, going against each other, and we’re out here just to get paid and make the best of our opportunity. It's just fun seeing him."

So when they clashed on Friday's field, it was a little one way, a little the other way.

"At the end of the day, you've got to make him do some things that he's not used to doing," Stevenson said. "If he has 4.2 speed, you have to take him off his line. You have to make him do something out of the ordinary."

Getting physical was the idea.

"I know he’s quick and I know he's fast," Stevenson said. "Me being able to get my hands on him a couple of times kind of threw him off. I'm a little bit bigger than him so I don't he definitely don't want me to touch him. But he definitely did good with his releases off the line.

"He gave me some work today and I gave him some work today."

They'll both have plenty of time to work against each in months to come.