Minicamp Recap Day 2: Brisker Speaks on Last Season's Concussion and New Leaders Emerging

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

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Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Alex Shapiro is joined by ABC7 and ESPN 1000’s Dionne Miller to break down Day 2 of Bears mandatory minicamp. The duo discusses Jaquan Brisker’s emotional return and maturity after battling a vestibular concussion, how the offense is starting to find its rhythm with Caleb Williams, and the standout performances of Olamide Zaccheaus and Kiran Amegadjie. They also dive into the growth of Tyrique Stevenson and Gervon Dexter, and the early impact of new defensive coordinator Dennis Allen.

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0:00.0	What up, what up, what up, everybody.
0:06.8	Welcome back to a micro edition of the Charter podcast brought to you by St. Xavier University.
0:11.8	I am Alex Shapiro, and joining me today, you know her from ABC7.
0:15.4	You know her from ESPN 1000.
0:17.0	It is the wonderful, Dionne Miller.
0:19.2	Dion, thank you for joining me.
0:20.3	Quite an introduction.
0:21.5	I love the micro version. That sounds so succinct and we're going to have a great time.
0:25.5	Well, we're going to try and keep it succeeding. Sucing. I can I can gab, but yes, we are just talking
0:29.7	about day two of mandatory mini camp today. Dion, it felt like the headline was Jaquan Brisker at the podium. You know, I went back and looked in how long it's been since we've even talked to him in this
0:41.7	media capacity. I mean, eight months since he suffered that concussion, which is outrageous to me.
0:47.0	He's been very loud throughout off-season work, and you can tell how much it means to him
0:51.8	to be back out here. I am surprised at how young he is and how mature he sounded.
0:56.8	He sounded like he had kind of grown up and gone through.
0:59.2	This process was challenging to him.
1:01.6	It was very hard.
1:02.9	Emotionally, I think he kind of wore that on his sleeves on as much as you can on X, Twitter, whatever.
1:07.6	Like, he was very honest about how he was feeling and how hard it was and telling his mom every week, like, I'm going to play this week.
1:13.1	I'm going to play this week.
1:13.8	So as much as from the inside the media room, we're like, where's Dekuaan Bricker and why is he not back?
1:18.7	Like, to hear it from his perspective, I thought was refreshing.
1:21.6	I think he values the opportunity to be here.
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