In the lead-up to the 2015 NFL Draft, a report emerged that an unnamed scout for an unnamed franchise had compared then-WVU wideout and now-Chicago Bear Kevin White to perennial Pro Bowler and future Hall of Famer, Larry Fitzgerald.

While that's certainly high praise and was probably a dubious comparison to make considering one has played in 170-career NFL games over the span of 11 seasons as a member of the Arizona Cardinals and the other had yet to even take a professional practice rep, it's hard to dispute the seeming similarities in their game.

Both players are about 6-foot-3, 215-pounds and both play a physical, dominating style that combines their immense athleticism with an ability to overpower the players around them.

It wasn't surprising then, that in April White told Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com that he viewed Fitzgerald as something of a mentor as he worked his was through the NFL vetting process.

"He's kind of like my mentor, somebody that I look up to that's in the NFL," White said at the time, via PFT.

That mentorship has apparently continued now that White is a member of the Chicago Bears as the former West Virginia standout was spotted by Director of NFC Communications Randall Liu chatting with Fitzgerald during the NFL Rookie Symposium last week (h/t to NFL.com).

This will probably make Bears fans across the Windy City smile pretty wide.

If White, who went seventh-overall in the draft at the first pick of the new John Fox-Ryan Pace regime in Chicago, can have even some semblance of the same kind of success Fitzgerald has found in the NFL, a Bears history not exactly littered with Hall of Fame-worthy pass-catchers may suddenly look a bit more decorated by the time White and new de facto No. 1 Alshon Jeffery are done.

Of course, a lot of that will depend on a quarterback spot, currently manned by Jay Cutler, that hasn't gotten the job done in several seasons.

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