Sports Illustrated's Don Banks tackles three questions from Bears camp:

Marcus Robinson Jonathan Daniel/Allsport Thanks to season-ending injuries to his back (2000) and left knee (2001), Robinson has played in just 16 games over the course of the past two years. He tore two ligaments in his knee in the fifth game of 2001, and so far has that year-after-knee-surgery tenative look in practice. But the Bears will take it slowly with him, using every bit of the month-plus remaining to get him ready for the regular-season opener. With Marty Booker and Dez White in line for the starting receiver jobs, the Bears don't need Robinson to rush things. David Terrell and Robinson are running in that third-receiver role, but Robinson understands where he fits into things right now. "I can't come back and just expect Dez White to move out of the way for me because I'm the starter,'' Robinson said. "I've got to accept that he's the starter right now, and just go out and do my job.'' Some observers are of the opinion that Robinson's return to 1999 form -- when he set the Bears team record with 1,400 receiving yards, on 84 catches -- is the key to how far Chicago's offense goes this season. With Booker, White and running back Anthony Thomas establishing themselves as weapons last season, a recovered Robinson would give defenses one more headache than they can prepare for. While everyone seems fixated on whether Robinson's speed will return in light of his knee surgery, the sixth-year veteran says his jumping ability is more pivotal. More times than not in the past, Robinson didn't run past defenders, but he did out-leap them for the ball. "[Thursday] they threw a ball at me and I jumped for it and I didn't even think about it,'' Robinson said. "I didn't think about planting. I didn't think about the knee, I just jumped. That's how you've got to do it. It's just confidence. Don't worry about me. I'm going to be out there making plays. When the season starts, I'm going to be out there doing what I do.''

2	Is Bears' first-round pick Marc Colombo ready to replace the departed Blake Brockermeyer at left tackle?

Blake Brockermeyer Jonathan Daniel/Allsport Uh, no. Not yet, and maybe not any time in the forseeable future. Second-year man Bernard Robertson, a fifth-round pick, is working with the first-team at left tackle, and Columbo has been taking his rookie lumps so far. The Bears believe that the 6-foot-7, 320-pound Columbo, with his impressive wing-span, will eventually get on the case and grow into the key left tackle role. But to some others, he so far looks a little bit like a project player who would probably be better suited to right tackle, where quick footwork is a bit less critical. Colombo spent time at both positions at Boston College. In pass-rushing drills Thursday, veteran defensive end Phillip Daniels abused Columbo on a regular basis, once knocking him straight back on his rump. Outside linebacker Rosevelt Colvin also blew by the big rookie a time or two in the role of edge rusher. But in fairness to Columbo, who did not allow a sack in his 20 collegiate starts, Daniels had the same kind of success against Robertson on Thursday. Colvin was generous to Columbo afterward, reminding the media to be patient with the team's top pick as he adjusts to the speed and complexity of the pro game. It's always risky to get real tricky with your left tackle spot, given that quarterback Jim Miller's blind side is at stake, but the Bears believe they can do things with their blocking schemes to help out Robertson on a semi-regular basis. If they can't, and left tackle becomes their obvious Achilles, backup quarterback Chris Chandler may be called upon to sub for Miller a lot sooner than the Bears hoped and expected.

3	Will the Bears have a Champaign hangover this season?

Dick Jauron Tom Pidgeon/Getty Images Nobody in the Bears' organization is excited about playing every "home" game 2 1/2 hours south of Chicago this season while Soldier Field gets a $365 million near-total facelift. But they're also determined not to use it as an excuse for whatever happens to the reigning NFC Central Division champions. "It won't be the story of our season," Bears general manager Jerry Angelo said. "This team is too good to let that happen. Is it an ideal situation? No. But we'll deal with whatever comes up. Our team operations people have already done a lot of work to make it go as smoothly as possible.'' The Bears will play at the University of Illinois just this season, then be ready to resume play at Soldier Field in September 2003, after an all-road-game preseason next year. Bears head coach Dick Jauron said he has not yet addressed his team regarding the road warrior mentality that will be necessary this season, but that he probably will. "I believe I will," he said. "But I don't know that. It may go unaddressed, but it won't go unrecognized. We understand what we have to do.'' Each home game weekend, the Bears will fly into Decatur, Ill., on Saturday, and encamp there for the night, where the area's best hotel is located. That means on game days, the team will face a 45-minute bus drive each way to and from Decatur. The team will eat their postgame meal in the locker room at Illinois' Memorial Stadium. Trying to make the best of a bad situation, Jauron and Bears officials talked to other NFL head coaches and team officials who have been in just such nomadic situations. A list of do's and don't were compiled. The Bears contacted Tennessee's Jeff Fisher, whose Titans shuttled between Nashville and Memphis in 1997, and Dom Capers, who as Carolina's head coach in 1995 marched his troops from Charlotte to Clemson, S.C., for each home game. It's tough to know just how much of a toll all the traveling will exact on the Bears, but conventional wisdom holds that in the end, the wear and tear and added logistics will some how, some way cost them a game or two. It doesn't help that the Bears schedule turns brutal in the second half, with games against Philadelphia, New England, St. Louis, Green Bay and Miami in a six-week span that starts Nov. 3.