True to his word, Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher is in Chicago for a mandatory minicamp that gets started on Friday.

The development comes after linebacker Lance Briggs declared that Urlacher would skip the three-day session due to Urlacher’s unhappiness with his contract.

Though the prospect of a daily fine in the amount of $8,165 likely wasn’t enough to get Urlacher to relent, the possibility that he would have owed the team as much as $5.7 million in previously paid signing bonus money might have gotten it done.

Though the ability of the Bears to recover that much money from Urlacher is debatable since under the CBA’s proration system the unearned portion of the signing bonus is at most $3.7 million, Urlacher has likely gotten enough exposure to the court system through his ugly child custody battle to realize that skipping out on a three-day practice session isn’t worth the potential price tag, whether the number is $3.7 million, $5.7 million, or something in between.