{"id":39458,"date":"2025-05-10T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/39458\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T16:38:09","slug":"ruben-hyppolite-modeled-his-game-after-this-legendary-bears-linebacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/39458\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Hyppolite modeled his game after this legendary Bears linebacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bears<\/a> added to their linebacker group in the 2025 NFL draft with the selection of Maryland&#8217;s Ruben Hyppolite II in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago had a need at the position after losing veteran Jack Sanborn in free agency, and they&#8217;ll look to call on Noah Sewell, Amen Ogbongbemiga, or Hyppolite to have a prominent role alongside veterans T.J. Edwards and Tremaine Edumnds. The team has already told Hyppolite that they feel he can be a versatile weapon for them on defense, and coordinator Dennis Allen will work with the rookie to find what role best suits him.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Coming to Chicago as a linebacker means there is legendary history to live up to, and Hyppolite has modeled his game after one of the best linebackers to ever come out of the franchise: Hall of Fame Mike Singletary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mike Singletary, I&#8217;ve been watching interviews and highlights of him since I could remember,&#8221; Hyppolite told The Sick Podcast with Adam Rank. &#8220;I kind of credited a lot of the way I play the game to just watching him and hearing him speak. Navorro Bowman who played with Singletary coached me a bit at Maryland and a lot of his drills and the things that he taught me came from Coach Singletary. There&#8217;s a lot of those things that I still take in and apply to this day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Modeling his game after Singletary is a trait that&#8217;ll make him loved by the Bears fanbase, and if he can play even a quarter of the way in which Singletary did for years in Chicago, the franchise will have struck gold with their fourth round pick.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Bears Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheBearsWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheBearsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bearswireusat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bears Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bears\/2025\/05\/10\/bears-ruben-hyppolite-modeled-game-after-mike-singletary\/83523220007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ruben Hyppolite modeled his game after this legendary Bears linebacker;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ruben Hyppolite modeled his game after this legendary Bears linebacker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears added to their linebacker group in the 2025 NFL draft with the selection of Maryland&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[14398,14396,374,692,391,2493,8897,7,2511,7400,4135,1002,14395,10846,6,14397,7402],"class_list":{"0":"post-39458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-adam-rank","9":"tag-amen-ogbongbemiga","10":"tag-bears","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-bears","13":"tag-chicagobears","14":"tag-dennis-allen","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-hyppolite","17":"tag-jack-sanborn","18":"tag-linebacker","19":"tag-maryland","20":"tag-mike-singletary","21":"tag-navorro-bowman","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-noah-sewell","24":"tag-t-j-edwards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114484524392301001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}