BOURBONNAIS, Ill. -- Brandon Marshall trotted out to his spot on the outside right. As he set himself, he noticed that the cornerback over him was Isaiah Frey.
A rookie.
Rookie! Marshall called in to Cutler with a smile.
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The last laugh belonged to the kid, however. Frey broke across the middle right with Marshall and the pass went incomplete.
It was fun, pretty cool, just knowing Im lining up against Brandon Marshall, Frey said, laughing. The sixth-round draft choice out of Nevada wasnt about to get puffy-chested about surviving against one of the NFLs elite receivers, however. It was a bad throw. Otherwise Brandon catches everything. I got lucky.
It is perhaps the measure of Marshall that neither is he big-timing anyone, except in fun. He was bested by cornerback Kelvin Hayden in one one-on-one drill Sunday and when his next rep came, called out Hayden to jump in and give him a rematch (the drill ended before Marshall had a chance to win his money back).
Marshalls impact on the offense in general has been obvious. His teaching within the receiver group has been a supplement to the coaching of Darryl Drake.
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Just sitting back and just watching him working his mechanics and the way he works as a receiver, it kind of leaks off on me and I just try to copycat everything hes doing, said Devin Hester. Its been kind of helping out a lot.
Marshall has more career catches (494) than the combined totals of all current active Bears receivers (412).
Yet he is learning as well as teaching, even from a rookie in the case of Alshon Jeffery.
Honestly, Im actually learning things from Alshon, Marshall said. The things he was able to do in pads these last few days I wasnt able to do in my first days in the NFL. So Im picking up on things now.
Im sure hes learned a lot from me but at the same time, Ive already learned a few things, just 10 minutes ago, just writing things down from his game.