Welcome in to an under center podcast special here on NBC Sports Chicago.

I'm JJ Stankovitz.

Our guest today is Mike Kay, who covers the Jacksonville Jaguars for First Coast News in Jacksonville.

Mike, obviously, we're here to talk to you about Alan Robinson, but mostly I want to

get into the six-part series you wrote and shot about Alan Robinson. It's called the Evolution of

Alan Robinson. And it's a really fascinating read. I'm going to tweet out the link on my Twitter,

but you can also find it on Mike's Twitter and on First Coast News's website.

Mike, just first of all, what are the Bears getting in Alan Robinson?

And we'll get into him as a player next, but what are they getting in Alan Robinson as a person?

They're getting a guy who's matured a lot over the last four years.

I've covered him from three of his four years in the NFL, and he has steadily grown in that

maturity level. He went from being a really young kid who had a chip on his shoulder because he was

a late second round pick when a lot of people thought he'd be a first round pick.

And he's, you know, this injury has kind of woken him up.

I think he has some perspective.

He's a guy who really likes doing stuff in the community. He's from nearby Detroit.

So I think he's a guy that will be really good for the locker room.

I want to talk about that chip on the shoulder mentality,

because in your stories about Alan Robinson, he came out of Penn State thinking he'd be a first

round pick, then slips to the second round, and he falls behind, you know, even his own teammate,

Marquise Lee. How did you feel like that fueled him to be the guy he was in Jacksonville?

Well, he thinks about it every day. He's a lot like LaShaul McCoy, who remembers every

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