The last Bears wide receiver to be voted to the Pro Bowl returned for a second stint with the team Tuesday when Marty Booker agreed to a two-year contract.
Marty Booker signals to the crowd after making his third TD catch in a 2001 win over the Buccaneers in Tampa.
Booker spent the previous four seasons with the Dolphins after the Bears traded him and a draft pick to Miami on Aug. 21, 2004 in exchange for defensive end Adewale Ogunleye.
Booker caught 194 passes for 2,627 yards and 11 TDs in four years with the Dolphins. The 6-foot, 210-pounder led Miami with 50 receptions for 556 yards and 1 TD in 2007.
Booker had his greatest success with the Bears. He set a franchise record with 100 catches in 2001, then was voted to the Pro Bowl in 2002 after registering his second straight 1,000-yard season while making 97 receptions. Booker caught at least one pass in his final 58 games with the Bears, eclipsing Bobby Engram’s record of 57 consecutive games.
Booker, who will turn 32 in July, ranks fifth on the Bears’ all-time receiving list with 315 catches and sixth with 3,684 yards.
Booker was selected by the Bears in the third round of the 1999 draft (78th overall) out of Northwest Louisiana, which is now known as Louisiana-Monroe, the same school that produced former Bears safety Chris Harris and Bears second-year safety Kevin Payne.
Booker remains the last Bears receiver to catch three TD passes in a game, a feat he accomplished on Nov. 18, 2001 in a 27-24 win at Tampa Bay.
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