Bears to use tutor approach for Mitch Trubisky's NFL orientation

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Coming into this year’s draft with just 13 starts at North Carolina, Mitch Trubisky projects to have a slightly steeper learning curve if only because of experience. The Bears have a plan to address that with a slight staff tweak to intensify and accelerate the rookie quarterback’s development beyond this weekend’s rookie minicamp.

Quarterbacks coach Dave Ragone will devote additional coaching time to Trubisky, while offensive coordinator — and former quarterbacks coach — Dowell Loggains works with the offense and vets Mike Glennon and Mark Sanchez in addition to Connor Shaw, who is coming off a broken leg last preseason and worked with Loggains with the Cleveland Browns in 2014.

NFL teams occasionally hire an additional assistant position coach for rookie quarterbacks, particularly when the head coach is not himself a former quarterbacks coach. Because of Loggains’ background, which included coaching Jay Cutler to his best NFL season (2015), working with Brian Hoyer and getting something out of Matt Barkley last year, the Bears did not expect to add staff for the care and feeding of the No. 2-overall pick (Trubisky).

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Trubisky will be tasked with learning NFL defenses, his own offense and technique modifications. He worked primarily out of the shotgun at North Carolina but has been working on taking direct snaps since January.

“It's been a seamless transition,” Trubisky said after his selection by the Bears. “I feel like working under center has helped me become even more consistent with my footwork and I felt like they were impressed and saw everything they needed to see, so I feel like being athletic is going to help that transition and continue to improve my feet, so it was good.”

The Bears ran 63 percent of their snaps out of a shotgun last season, albeit in part because of being routinely in catch-up, passing situations through their 3-13 season.

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