PRO CAREER: Enters his 10th NFL season, all with the Bears, standing as the fifth-longest tenured player among active NFL long snappers with their current club… His 141 games with Chicago leads all current Bears, which also includes a team-high 73 straight… Stands alongside Olin Kreutz as Chicago's longest tenured players with 9 NFL seasons under their belts… Has handled the snapping duties in all but 3 games during his NFL career… Contributed to Bears setting an NFL record for most consecutive unblocked punts (920) and games without a blocked punt (180) that covered 13 years and was snapped in 2003… Snapped every punt and kick (PAT and FG) attempt for Chicago from 1998-2000 and 2003-06… Has played all 16 games 7 times in his career while pulling the trigger on 1,318 of 1,338 long-snap attempts during that time… One of the league's top coverage long snappers, notching 65 career special teams tackles, second-most by a Bear since 1995 (Adrian Peterson, 75).

HOW ACQUIRED: Entered NFL as a sixth-round selection (189th overall) by Chicago in the 1998 NFL Draft.

PERSONAL NOTES: Atlanta area Lineman-of-the-Year at Marist H.S. in Marrietta, GA where he earned 3 letters in football and 2 in basketball… Played in Georgia-Florida all-star game… Began his instruction in the art of long-snapping at the age of 13 from veteran NFL coach and family friend Rod Dowhower (then of the Atlanta Falcons) whose son also attended Marist… Created personal website - www.longsnapper.com -- to provide personal information on himself and instruction on how to become a successful long snapper… The youngest of 2 sons of Jay and Patty… Brother, Bernard, played football at Notre Dame from 1988-92… He and wife, Tamara, the daughter of former Major League pitcher Tommy John, have 1 daughter… State spokesman for American Lung Association's Athletes and Asthma program.