Another Brian Urlacher — with or without hair — would be welcome sight at LB

Restore by Katona. Guess the place replanted Urlacher’s real hair in places where it had withered and turned to desert.

‘‘They take hair one at a time from the back of my head,’’ he said on ‘‘Waddle & Silvy’’ on ESPN Radio. ‘‘Four thousand hairs from the back of my head to the front of my head.

Now the crop is ready to be irrigated. Soon, it might grow long enough to rival Clay Matthews’ mane or even Joakim Noah’s man bun.

That’s swell. Every man should have a chance to spend more than 30 seconds in a barber’s chair, to go gray, to have something unruly under his hat.

But this is why I have been thinking about Urlacher, even before the new hair put him out there: The Bears need a great middle linebacker. Again.

Urlacher, retired since the spring of 2013, was a great middle linebacker. He will be voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, guaranteed. He is two years away from being put on the ballot.

He followed in a tradition of legendary Bears middle linebackers: Mike Singletary, Dick Butkus, Bill George.

All of them are in the Hall of Fame. What a legacy. What a proud fundamental cornerstone of Bears history and success.

So as the process begins to build the current Bears into something better than a team that has gone 8-8, 5-11 and 6-10 since Urlacher left, the front office could do far worse than look for a potential game-changer in the middle, a young Monster of the Midway who could lead the defense for years to come.

Arguments can be made that the middle-linebacker position has become almost obsolete in modern times, what with the emphasis on passing and the rotation of nickel and dime defensive backs all over the field.

But in the Bears’ 3-4 defense, there are what might be called two middle linebackers, and they are key. One of them can be the man, the bell cow.

Who was in the middle this season? Players such as the disappointing Christian Jones and undrafted rookies Jonathan Anderson and John Timu.

William ‘Refrigerator’ Perry hospitalized in Chicago

William “Refrigerator” Perry’s stay in Chicago is lasting longer than expected.

The Bears legend is stuck in an area hospital after being admitted over the weekend when doctors found a leg infection during a routine prescription refill, according to a previous Sun-Times report.

On Sunday, Perry, who resides in South Carolina, made his long-awaited return to Soldier Field, where he received a standing ovation from the Bears faithful. The Fridge was allowed to attend only under the condition that he would return to the hospital following the game, according to ABC 7.