Conte settling in at safety
LAKE FOREST – Chris Conte quickly made a name for himself as a rookie for the Bears in 2011.
OK, so maybe it wasn’t the name he expected: “Birdman.”
The nickname stemmed from teammate Henry Melton, who thought that the fleet-footed Conte had a special way of gliding to the football. Birds glide. So there you go.
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