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Bears' Leonard Floyd has to remind himself to eat

Dale Zanine / USA TODAY Sports

Chicago Bears ninth-overall selection Leonard Floyd has a good problem.

The Georgia linebacker, who stands at 6-6, 230 lbs., has to remind himself to eat, and he's taken to setting notices on his phone so he doesn't forget.

"I've got prompts set up on my phone of times in the day that I'm supposed to eat, making sure I eat at those time when I get the alarm," Floyd told John Mullin of CSN Chicago.

And it doesn't matter what or how much he takes in, with Floyd saying, "As long as I eat a lot of it."

Much has been made of Floyd adding bulk to his frame, but Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio is unconcerned with his size.

"The weight thing's not a big thing with me," Fangio said Saturday. "He's going to weigh somewhere between 230 and 235. That's just what he's going to weigh. We knew that before we drafted him. So it's not an issue. We knew that and that's a fact and that's what he is."

Floyd will probably mix in as a pure pass rusher early in his career, especially with the Bears stacked at the linebacker position, but eventually could fill out and force his way into a three down role.

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