Bears' Hurd arrested for drug charges

Three former Cowboys joined the Bears last offseason. Two of them have been busts on the field, and the third was just busted off of it.

Bears receiver and special teamer Sam Hurd was arrested last night on federal drug charges. He allegedly accepted a kilogram of cocaine from an informant and an undercover cop. On top of that, Hurd allegedly negotiated to purchase 5-10 kilograms of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana per week in the future. He allegedly said he'd been selling about 4 kilograms of cocaine per week in the Chicago area and that his current supplier wasn't able to meet his demand.

Details are still coming to light on this bombshell of the story. Obviously we shouldn't expect to see Hurd donning his No. 81 for the Bears Sunday against the Seahawks, or any time in the future. What that means for the Bears is they'll be without a guy that has caught 8 passes for 109 yards and made some contributions on special teams. Big deal. But it also means another distraction, and a big one, for a reeling team that's dealt with plenty of them between Marion Barber's refusal to talk about one of the worst indiviudal finishes to a game in Bears history, the health of Jay Cutler and Matt Forte and the saga over Mike Martz's future.

And there's this interesting little part of the Hurd situation. He allegedly provided drugs to a list of other NFL players that is in the double digits. Were any of those players Bears? That's something we'll likely find out sometime in the future.

I'll say this for today's developments — they've made the Bears relevant in the local media again after many fans were ready to move onto the Bulls and Blackhawks after last week's disaster. Unfortunately for the Bears, these developments are probably even more distasteful for them than the ending of the Broncos game was.