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| Big Game for Olsen at Halfway Point |
| By playerpress.com wire service / November 9, 2009 |
Greg Olsen, the Bears’ second-year tight end, had his best game of the season at the halfway point of the 2009 campaign.
Olsen caught five passes for 71 yards, including three touchdowns, but the Bears lost to Arizona, 41-21, to fall to 4-4 after a 3-1 start.
The three touchdowns marked a career single-game high for Olsen. It was the first time in his career that he had more than one.
The second-year tight end, the team’s first-round pick (31st overall) in 2007, has six TDs in the team’s first eight games, with 27 catches for 286 yards (10.6 yards per catch).
Last year, Olsen was named Chicago Bears’ Player of the Year by Comcast SportsNet of Chicago after catching 54 passes for 574 yards and five touchdowns and he’s on pace to equal or surpass all three marks.
The Bears have an up-and-down schedule for the second half of the season, with division games against Minnesota (2), Green Bay and Detroit, plus games against Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco and Baltimore.
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| Olsen: Bears’ Player of the Year |
| By playerpress.com wire service / January 19, 2009 |
Second-year tight end Greg Olsen has been named Chicago Bears’ Player of the Year by Comcast SportsNet of Chicago.
Olsen, who caught 54 passes for 574 yards and led the team with five touchdown receptions, also was named the winner of the Brian Piccolo Award. The Bears give the Piccolo Award to the team member who best exemplifies the courage, loyalty, teamwork, dedication and sense of humor of the late Brian Piccolo.
Olsen’s 54 catches were the most for a Bears tight end since Chicago legend Mike Ditka caught 75 in 1964.
These were not the first awards for Olsen, who was named to the NFL All-Rookie team in 2007 and was a second alternate to the NFC Pro Bowl in 2008, but they are the biggest so far. The First Team All-Atlantic Coast Conference star at the University of Miami already has 93 catches in his first two seasons for 965 yards and already is known throughout the league as a tough, reliable blocker at the age of 23.
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