Always overlooked ... always forgotten ... the secret ANCHOR ... Patrick Mannelly.
Enters his 14th NFL season all with the Bears and holds the franchise record for career games played in Chicago (205)...
Stands as the second-longest tenured player among active NFL long snappers with their current club...
His 137 straight regular season games played leads all current Bears...
Stands alongside Olin Kreutz as Chicago's longest tenured players with 13 NFL seasons under their belts...
Has handled the snapping duties in all but three games during his NFL career...
Contributed to Bears setting an NFL record for most consecutive unblocked punts (920) and games without a blocked punt (180) that covered 13 years and was snapped in 2003...
Snapped every punt and kick (PAT and FG) attempt for Chicago from 1998-2000 and 2003-10...
Has played in all 16 games 11 times in his career while pulling the trigger on 1,900-of-1,920 long-snap attempts during that time...
One of the league's top coverage long snappers, notching 77 career special teams tackles, fourth-most by a Bear since 1995 (Brendon Ayanbadejo, 79; Corey Graham, 82; Adrian Peterson, 110).