PRO CAREER: A starting linebacker the past 4 seasons, Hillenmeyer ranks 3rd on the team with 330 tackles since starting his first game in 2004… The fifth-year vet has played in 73 career games with 50 starts, including a career-high 14 starts at strongside linebacker in 2007… One of just 3 players with at least 60 tackles as a Bear in each of the previous 4 seasons (Briggs, Urlacher)… Set a career-high with 101 tackles in 2007… A solid special teams performer, his 30 special teams tackles over the first 4 years of his career were 7th most by a Bears player during that time… Has started 3-of-4 postseason appearances with 19 tackles and 1 PBU… His career-high 12 special teams tackles as a rookie helped solidify Chicago's special teams in 2003.

HOW ACQUIRED: Signed to Chicago's practice squad (9/13/03).

PERSONAL NOTES: Two-time all-state, all-region and all-district selection at Nashville's Montgomery Bell Academy playing LB, DE, TE and P… Lettered 3 years in football, 3 years in track and 2 years in tennis… Worked during college with the Boys and Girls Clubs and Special Olympics… Born Hunter Taverner Hillenmeyer in Nashville… Father, Henry, owns a chain of Nashville restaurants and was on the basketball and crew teams at Yale… The youngest of 5 boys, his older brother, Taylor, played golf at the University of Miami (Fla.).