Name: Charles Tillman
Position: CB
Height: 6'1''
Weight: 196
Birth Date: 2/23/1981
College: Louisiana-Lafayette


A fixture in Chicago’s defensive backfield throughout his career having started 35-of-39 career games played at left cornerback, recording 237 tackles, 2 sacks, 9 INTs, 31 PBUs and 6 forced fumbles… His 237 tackles since 2003 are the most in Chicago’s secondary and rank 3rd on the Bears trailing only Brian Urlacher (429) and Lance Briggs (419)… Stands as Chicago’s active leader with 31 career PBUs and his 9 picks rank 3rd on team behind Mike Brown (14) and Nathan Vasher (13)… Intercepted career-high 5 passes in 2005 returning them for a career-high and team-high 172 yards, ranking 2nd in the NFL averaging 34.4 yards per return… Set Bears record (and 2nd all-time in NFL annals) for the longest non-scoring return by producing a 95-yard return on an INT vs. GB (12/4/05), the fourth-longest overall INT return in club history… Earned first career NFC Defensive Player-of-the-Week honor for his first career TD, a 22-yard game-winning INT return in OT at DET (10/30/05)… Combined with Nathan Vasher to record 13 INTs in 2005 which tied for third-most picks by a CB tandem in the NFL, tied for tops in the NFC, was the most by a Bears duo since Mark Carrier (10) and Donnell Woolford (3) in 1990 and was the most by any Chicago CB tandem dating back to 1968… Became first rookie since Carrier in 1990 to lead Chicago in INTs with 4 in 2003… Combined with Lance Briggs to become the first Bears rookies to record an INT in same season since Urlacher and Brown in 2000… Rookie recipient of the 2003 Brian Piccolo Award as voted by his teammates… Named NFL Rookie-of-the-Year and an All-Pro by Sports Illustrated while receiving NFL Defensive Rookie-of-the-Year honor from Football Digest.

More about Charles visit: www.chicagobears.com

• Four-year starter at LCB at Louisiana-Lafayette (1999-2002)
• Two-time all-Sun Belt Conference selection
• All-America honors as a senior
• First-team All-Sun Belt selection while starting every game and leading the team with a career-high 100 tackles

Charles was born in Chicago and attended kindergarten at Horace Mann Elementary on the South Side. His parents are native Chicagoans, Arbria and Donald Tillman. The son of an Army sergeant, he attended 11 schools from kindergarten to 12th grade... Wife is Jackie.