Bears make their second secondary addition in four days, still chasing the hole Bryant left

The Bears made another move to shore up their secondary on Saturday, the second such addition since Coby Bryant went down with a left knee injury on August 3. The details on the new arrival aren't fully out yet, but the pattern is clear enough: Chicago is in accelerated depth-building mode, and the back end of the defense is where most of the urgency lives.

Bryant's 8-to-10-week absence is the engine driving all of it. The $40 million safety signing was supposed to anchor a secondary that already had questions behind Cam Lewis at cornerback and around Xavier Woods at the other safety spot. With Kyler Gordon also out, the Bears are working with a thin room and not much margin. Marlen Sewell came in Tuesday. Edwards was activated Wednesday. Saturday brought another body. That's three moves in five days at or near the same position group.

As I noted earlier this week, the Bears won 11 games last year by executing well in close situations — not by dominating anyone. That formula gets harder to sustain when the secondary is being rebuilt on the fly in August. The moves are the right instinct. Whether the players are the right players is a question that won't get answered until the games count.