The Bears have 14 retired numbers. Here are the seven I'd unretire.

Do you realize Shea McClellin wore both Mike Singletary’s No. 50 and Dan Hampton’s No. 99 in his short and unremarkable time with the Bears?

Or that five players have worn 23 since Devin Hester?

How about seven players wearing No. 51 before the Bears finally got around to retiring Dick Butkus’ number on a wet and frigid Halloween night in 1994?*

*Gale Sayers’ No. 40 was retired on the same night. Interestingly only one player — a scab defensive back named Steve Trimble in 1987 — had worn it in the interim.

The overall point here is that the Chicago Bears haven’t been shy about letting the numbers of their great players over the last 50 or so years get back into circulation.

With 11 numbers already retired before the Butkus and Sayers retirement, the team needed to safeguard the available amount of digits for present-day players — a restriction that more or less guaranteed Walter Payton would be the only player on the 1985 roster to receive the honor.

The eventual retiring of Mike Ditka’s No. 89 in 2013 then came with the George McCaskey announcement the Bears were out of the retired numbers business.

All of that said, it was still a tad jarring to learn Bears rookie center Logan Jones will be wearing 54 for the first time since Brian Urlacher took it off for the final time in 2012.

Now, there’s not too much to be upset about. Longtime equipment manager Tony Medlin apparently made the suggestion and Urlacher gave his blessing. Jones also plays on the other side of the ball so it’ll look a little different to see the number creating holes at Soldier Field rather than filling them.

And yet I still have the thought that Urlacher’s 54 should be untouchable.

Think about the last 25 years in Chicago sports. There’s room for debate, but I think there have been four truly iconic numbers: Urlacher’s No. 54, Derrick Rose’s No. 1, Jonathan Toews’ No. 19 and Patrick Kane’s No. 88.

Rose’s number was hung in the United Center rafters earlier this year while Toews and Kane will get their ceremonies over the next decade.

Urlacher’s 54 was arguably more visible in town than any of those three, yet it will be worn this season by a second-round offensive lineman from Iowa who will be under a lot of pressure to live up to the digits.

All because Bill Hewitt’s No. 56 can’t be unretired 77 years after his death?

With that in mind, I thought I’d go through all 14 numbers — the most in the NFL - and sort things out. Which numbers would I keep, which would I unretire … and which two would I add?

Without further delay …