<p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears" target="_blank" >Bears</a> cornerback <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/08/05/bears-lb-t-j-edwards-returns-to-practice-after-missing-first-week-with-calf-injury" target="_blank" >Tyrique Stevenson</a> mentions the “Fail Mary” before you have a chance to.</p><p>One mistake, he said, can get you cast aside by the rest of the NFL. He’s lived it.</p><p>“One play could just … As far as injury, as far as mistakes, as far as anything, this league will forget about you in a heartbeat,” he told the Sun-Times earlier this week. “For me, it’s just constantly sitting on my brain every time I touch the field — ‘Just go out there and lay it on the line and stay focused.’</p><p>“I think for that, that’s how I look at it, just an internal motivation.