The Chicago Bears used the No. 8 overall pick on Georgia LB Roquan Smith in this year’s NFL Draft, and it was widely praised as a great choice.

However, after Smith was robbed this week, getting jerseys, helmets and an iPad with the Bears’ playbook on it, one Chicago Tribune columnist is ready to call the former Bulldog an embarrassment.

In a column that can only be described as “asinine,” “pointless,” or “dear God, why would anyone ever write this?” Steve Rosenbloom criticizes Smith for being the victim of theft. Why describe the column when I could just let Rosenbloom make his case directly?

In case you missed the story, Bears first-round pick Roquan Smith had items of great value stolen from his 2018 BMW X5 over the weekend while parked near his apartment in Athens, Ga.

At this point, you could ask how a student-athlete that the NCAA is so proud of not paying is able to afford a 2018 Beemer. But that’s not why you called.

Rosenbloom then lists all the things that Smith had stolen, before zeroing in on one particular item. And this, folks, is where the hot takes start to fly:

Oh, and one more thing was ripped off: Smith’s Bears-issued iPad with the team’s playbook on it.

Is this the earliest the Bears have been embarrassed over their choice in the first round?

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Listen, rook, you can’t lose your playbook. You just can’t, especially when you haven’t run a single play yet. The playbook must be protected at all times. The playbook is the team’s bible. You don’t put the bible at risk in a car overnight.

Rosenbloom goes on to get in a few more shots at Smith before the column ends, asking if the NFL’s rookie seminar covers such groundbreaking skills as locking your car:

Does the NFL’s rookie seminar cover locking cars? Why would anyone leave something as important as a playbook in a car overnight? Asking for someone who looks like he needs a friend right now.

If the Bears are sending out playbooks on iPads, doesn’t it stand to reason that the iPad is password-protected? Perhaps Rosenbloom isn’t familiar with that aspect of the technology, or maybe he was just desperate to write an attention-grabbing column.

Either way, let’s focus on the important thing in this story — a man was robbed. Fortunately, it appears all of the items have been recovered.