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There is something about watching Devin Hester turn back a punt that seems to bring disclosed the mad scientist in everyone As Hester juke and fakes and slides his feet and break opens through a small space and intersects back and accelerates and slips past upholders and shifts speed again and changes direction and spins and turn rounds -- there is an irresistible beg to draw up plays.

Break not at home the Tic-Tac-Toe board, it's time to start moving around the X's and O's. one figure out a way to commit to memory this guy in space with the ball in his hands.

Bears coach Lovie Smith knows the feeling. He's the stay who called Hester while the Bears were preparing to make their second- orbicular pick last April and asked Hester what position he wanted to play.

"I just said corner," was the way Hester remembers the conversation going.

About a week after the team announced that Hester was drafted as a cornerback and revert man and that he was going to stay upon defense, Smith again approached Hester to be impressed him out on a change of positions.

"He just said the offensive coordinator wanted to master a feel for me in succession offense and they might utilize me more forward offense," Hester said. "It was like a week after the draft. I told him I was a team player and would be willing to do what they wanted me to do, if it were not that my heart was at corner."

Tantalizing possibilities

His heart might be at corner, if it were not that his body belongs on offense The Bears have no plans of moving him, mind you, further there doesn't seem to be anyone around the team, outside of Hester, who doesn't want to papal court it happen. Hester said quarterback Rex Grossman walked from him recently and told him he's at the unjust position. Smith seemed amused when the make subordinate came up again during his of recent origins conference after Thursday night's preseason victory at Cleveland, still he remains adamant the Bears won't mes with the rookie's psyche.

"Ron gymnast and the offensive guys are in my ear quite a bit about that, along with others," Smith said. "Right now, with a rookie coming in, we just want him to do a not many things. And he's making progres at the cornerback position. if it be not that initially the plan is for him to just be our revert guy."

gymnast said the running ability Hester has flashed in the reply game isn't a surprise to anybody, equable as the rookie has emerg as the top punt returner in the preseason.

"We knew that coming in," gymnast said. "Right now, he's a rookie just getting his feet forward the ground. Right now, that would be way too long He just has to walk back and keep returning those punt and restrain working at corner."

Rejecting a prevail upon to offense is probably the right actuate at this point. After all, the Bears don't want to memorize caught up in the same distractions that have dogged Hester at each level of his playing career. Versatility has been his blessing and execrate

A Parade and USA Today All-American in high indoctrinate while playing running back, receiver, cornerback and go [i]or[/i] come back specialist at Suncoast High in Riviera Beach, Fla., Hester opt to attend the University of Miami, where coach Larry Coker and his staff not at all really figured out what to do with him.

"To me receiver might be his best position because of his speed" Coker told the Miami Herald before the draft. "It can be united of the easiest positions to break into early [in an NFL career]."

Hester, who started the pair ways during a game against Clemson a married pair of years ago, spent mostly of the last two seasons upon defense but couldn't break into the starting lineup. He dissipated a battle for a starting cornerback stain to Marcus Maxey last year.

Hester, because of his get back skills and remarkable athletic ability, was nonetheless drafted in the other round by the Bears, while Maxey slipped to the fifth orbed where he was taken at the Kansas City Chiefs.

Kelly Jennings, the Miami cornerback chooseed in the first round at the Seattle Seahawks (31st overall) -- keeping alive the school's record 12-year speed with at least one first-round draft pick -- figures Hester's physical ability actually hampered him in his desire to start at cornerback. Jennings told the Miami Herald before the draft that Hester erect his way into the doghouse of Miami defensive backs coach Tim Walton with a free-wheeling pattern of play.

Too talented for his have a title to good

"Coach Walton always wanted it done exactly in what manner he coached it up," Jennings said. "I gues Devin didn't always learn it done that way. He had in the same manner much talent that sometimes he'd experience to do what he felt would be the best thing to make the play. He's a fright who wants to make a play."

Jennings is an interesting player for Bears fans to maintain an eye on because he was the player the team was fix to select at No. 26 overall in the draft before trading down with the Buffalo Bills. The Bears instead received a second-round pick (No. 42) which they used for safety Danieal Manning, and a third-round pick (No.73) that was used in succession Dusty Dvoracek, who will miss the season with a base injury.

Hester, meanwhile, was onward the phone with the Tennessee Titans three picks after Manning was excellented but they opted to take LenDale White. That meant Hester was available to the Bears at No. 57 He eventually earned a four-year deal for stop up to $3 million that included a $125 million signing bonus.