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Bears Add Depth and Special Teams Help

Chargers free agent linebacker Amen Ogbongbemiga has signed with the Bears on a one-year contract.

Gene Chamberlain

Bears Add Depth and Special Teams Help
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The Bears signed Chargers free agent linbeacker Amen Ogbongbemiga to a one-year deal worth $2.1 million according to a league source.

Ogbongbemiga has been playing almost entirely on special teams, with only 129 plays on defense in three seasons. He has made two starts and was on for 80% of special teams plays last year with the Chargers, a career high. Ogbongbemiga has made 11 career special teams tackles and has 36 total tackles. He also has two fumble rrecoveries.

An undrafted free agent from Oklahoma State, he is 6-foot, 231 pounds and 25 years old.

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Gene Chamberlain
GENE CHAMBERLAIN

BearDigest.com publisher Gene Chamberlain has covered the Chicago Bears full time as a beat writer since 1994 and prior to this on a part-time basis for 10 years. He covered the Bears as a beat writer for Suburban Chicago Newspapers, the Daily Southtown, Copley News Service and has been a contributor for the Daily Herald, the Associated Press, Bear Report, CBS Sports.com and The Sporting News. He also has worked a prep sports writer for Tribune Newspapers and Sun-Times newspapers.

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