Dan Pompei of the Chicago Tribune is very excited about the upcoming Bears season. While some Bears fans are cautiously optimistic, Pompei is all in. The Bears offense will be great; the Bears defense will be much improved; the brain trust era is just beginning.

His optimism continued in today’s column as he point out the Bears’ depth at various positions, specifically, linebacker, safety, running back, wide receiver, tight end and left guard.

He says the Bears have so many good players that they don’t know what to do with them. I say don't confuse equally average players with depth.

Maybe Pompei was too excited about the Lance Louis/Josh Beekman/Johan Asiata competition at left guard, because I have a question about the way Pompei listed the safeties.

“Other than Harris, not much separates three players — Craig Steltz, Danieal Manning and Major Wright. And it's too early to write off Al Afalava.”

I have no problem with Chris Harris being the No. 1 safety going into camp -- at either strong or free safety. But Craig Steltz? Steltz is in the group of three, all of whom are ahead of Al Afalava.

Updates from OTAs have been sparse, so maybe there’s something I’m missing from the first two OTA sessions. It’s just hard to imagine a scenario where Steltz is higher on the depth chart than Afalava.