The Chicago Bears enter into the offseason $5.3 million over the updated salary cap projections according to Over The Cap and will need to do some in-house maintenance until the team can even think about re-signing pending free agent or adding any external players.
As the Bears approach March's deadline for getting under the NFL salary cap, they're in an unaccustomed situation. They'll need to try to gain back cap space by either restructuring veteran contracts or cutting players outright.
The expectations are only getting higher when it comes to the 2026 Chicago Bears. While they’re not opening as a favorite to win the Super Bowl necessarily, they’re definitely on man experts’ radars as a team to watch next season as the Ben Johnson-Caleb Williams combo continues to come into its own.
If you learned anything from this Super Bowl and playoff run more generally, it’s that defense wins championships. Overwhelming, smothering defenses that make the best quarterbacks in the league see ghosts.
The 2025 NFL season is in the rearview mirror, and while the Chicago Bears fell short of a Super Bowl appearance, the vibes around Halas Hall are different this time.
As franchises prepare wish lists for their next hires, numerous cautionary tales exist. Here are the worst head-coaching tenures since the 1970 merger.
According to Mike Berardino, veteran NFL WR Miles Boykin has announced his retirement from the league on Instagram. Boykin, 29, was the No. 93 overall pick in the third round by the Ravens out of Notre Dame in 2019.
When Chicago Bears assistant general manager Ian Cunningham was hired by the Atlanta Falcons to be the team's next general manager, it opened up a whole bag of worms that fans have complained about for weeks now.
Fans of the Chicago Bears are understandably tired of hearing about the plans for a new stadium. After years of negotiations, rumors, and even purchasing a plot of land in Arlington Heights, the Bears are still nowhere close to building a new stadium.
The Chicago Bears are entering a critical offseason following a heart-wrenching overtime loss to the Los Angeles Rams in the Divisional Round. While the
DJ Moore played a key role for the Chicago Bears this past season. They finished the regular season with an 11-6 record, clinching the NFC North title for the first time since 2018.
Iowa lawmakers introduced Senate File 2252, a bill designed to attract the Chicago Bears to the state. The Bears are currently evaluating stadium sites in Illinois and Indiana.
For years, Thanksgiving belonged to the NFL, but Christmas belonged to the NBA. Occasionally, an NFL game would fall on Christmas, but it was anomalous, even avoided if possible.
The Green Bay Packers captured NFL headlines for days last August when they swung a blockbuster trade for Micah Parsons, a four-time All-Pro pass rusher.
The battle between the state of Illinois and the state of Indiana to see who will host the future stadium of the Chicago Bears is starting to heat up with a potential resolution being decided by the end of the month.
The Chicago Bears' 2026 offseason won't be the kind of teardown fans have become used to. Instead, it'll be more about filling the gaps between winning a playoff game and competing for a Super Bowl.
The Chicago Bears will not receive any compensatory 2026 or 2027 NFL draft picks following the departure of assistant general manager Ian Cunningham, and the reason has everything to do with how the NFL defines front-office authority.
The Chicago Bears and first-year head coach Ben Johnson broke onto the scene during the 2025 NFL season as one of the top up-and-coming teams in football.
The Chicago Bears' 2025 season wasn't just about Caleb Williams' development or Ben Johnson's incredible first year on the job. It was also about the emergence of rookie talent, and wide receiver Rome Odunze summed it up perfectly.
The Chicago Bears are facing some tough roster decisions as the team looks ahead to the 2026 NFL season. Now that Super Bowl LX is over, rumors and speculation are continuing to flow, but more earnestly.
Judging from all of the social media pleading for the Bears to trade away their future to get Maxx Crosby or sign Trey Hendrickson, getting an edge player would seem a priority this offseason.
The 2024 NFL Draft quarterback class was lauded as one of the most talented in recent memory in the months leading up to the draft. It certainly lived up to the hype on draft night, becoming the first draft in NFL history where six quarterbacks were off the board (which also tied an NFL record) within the first 12 picks.
The Chicago Bears took the NFC North by storm in 2025. Going from worst-to-first, including beating the Green Bay Packers twice, with one victory coming
The Chicago Bears have high hopes for their new digs. And the proposal has caught the eyes of the fans. Furthermore, JB Pritzker teased progress on the new stadium deal after meetings with Roger Goodell.