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The Chicago Bears entered this weeks NFL Draft with a lot to prove. It was new head coach Ben Johnson’s first time leading his coaching staff into a war room, while general manager Ryan Poles’ faces criticism for leading the Bears to a 15-36 record since taking over the job. The consensus from Analysts around…

It’s safe to say that Ben Johnson played a major part in the Chicago Bears selecting wide receiver Luther Burden with the No. 39 selection in the 2025 NFL Draft. Burden was a wide receiver who many had a first-round grade on, so when he was still on the board when the Bears were making…

Ben Johnson is making sure Chicago Bears players know that they will have to earn their keep moving forward. After the first two nights of the 2025 NFL Draft saw the Bears take a tight end in Colston Loveland and a wide receiver in Luther Burden, there had been a question over how the Bears…

Last year at the 2024 NFL trade deadline, the Chicago Bears sent running back Khalil Herbert to the Cincinnati Bengals in a trade exchange for a 2025 seventh-round pick. With the completion of the 2025 NFL draft, here’s a look back at how things unfolded now that the trade is officially complete. After falling out…

Chicago Bears fans clearly think the Bears have a need that the front office doesn’t believe is true. At pick No. 132 in the fourth round, the Chicago Bears selected linebacker Ruben Hyppolite II. Linebacker wasn’t exactly a position that Bears fans had the team addressing on the final day of the draft, but after…

LAKE FOREST, Ill – Zah Frazier is unique. The UTSA cornerback stands at 6-foot-3 and weighs 186 pounds, something not too common for the cornerback position. At his size, Frazier can also move, running a 4.36 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine – the fifth-fastest time among corners. Frazier will also turn 25 in…

In typical years, most talk around the NFL draft goes to those teams picking quarterbacks. This year, the conversation has changed. Though it seems like the Titans will select Miami QB Cam Ward first, the more interesting picks are happening later in the first round and in the draft altogether. The Chicago Bears are right…

It was 1997 and I sat down with the late and greatest football player of all time, Walter Payton, at his Aurora Roundhouse Restaurant to begin working with him on the first of a weekly column for my newspaper chain. He seemed agitated that I wasn’t eating my lunch at his restaurant—because I had already…

Some people make the mistake of thinking that the draft is about football. I can’t really blame them – you’d think the NFL Draft is, in fact, about the NFL – but unfortunately, they’re wrong. The draft isn’t about football, the draft is about drama. The league turned it into a three-day, primetime event for…

The Chicago Bears enter the 2025 NFL Draft armed with momentum, clarity, and perhaps most importantly—options. After a whirlwind offseason that brought sweeping changes to both sides of the ball, the franchise finds itself on the verge of a new era. Quarterback Caleb Williams now has more stability in the trenches. Meanwhile, the defense has…