From NBC Chicago:
Chicago Bears General Manager Jerry Angelo confirmed Friday afternoon that the team will cut wideout Sam Hurd, charged this week in a federal drug ring.
Angelo said during a brief news conference the charges caught the team off guard but not enough to prevent management from doing “the right thing,” which is cutting Hurd from the roster.
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Hurd, who was traded from Dallas to the Bears in July, was taken into custody Wednesday night outside Morton’s Steakhouse in Rosemont after he accepted a kilo of cocaine from an undercover federal agent he thought was a supplier.
The GM told press Friday there were no red flags in researching Hurd and nothing ever presented to the Bears by the NFL to contradict that.
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