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Roquan Smith reports to Bears training camp, but questions remain. ‘I don’t know his intentions,’ GM Ryan Poles says.

Chicago Bears inside linebacker Roquan Smith leaves the field Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

CHICAGO — When Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles sat down for the obligatory stage-setting news conference of training camp Tuesday morning, he still hadn’t crossed paths with standout linebacker Roquan Smith. Poles had been told Smith checked into camp. But beyond that?

Well, let’s just say whatever Poles knew about Smith’s contract dissatisfaction or plans to address it differed from what the GM was willing to talk about publicly. On a dais inside Halas Hall and in front of cameras livestreaming the back-and-forth with reporters via the Bears’ own

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