Buffalo Rumblings
Tremaine Edmunds and the Bears will welcome old friends to town in August.
The Buffalo Bills are expected to travel to the Windy City for a series of joint practices with the Chicago Bears ahead of their preseason game later this summer. Brad Biggs, who covers the Bears for The Chicago Tribune, shared the news on the heels of finalized 2025 NFL preseason schedules.
While the details for those practices are yet to be revealed, the Bills are set to face the Bears in Chicago on Sunday, August 17 in a preseason primetime matchup at 8 p.m. EDT. Buffalo won’t see the Bears during the regular season, but they’ve become somewhat familiar camp competition for one another in recent seasons.
The Bills hosted Chicago for the 2024 NFL preseason, which was then-rookie quarterback Caleb Williams’ first snaps against a hostile opponent. Williams drew rave reviews in completing four of seven passes for 95 yards before hitting the bench to watch the rest of a 33-6 blowout win by his teammates.
In 2023, Buffalo was in Chicago to take on quarterback Justin Fields and the Bears — a preseason finale that saw the Bills win 24-21 on the strength of quarterback Kyle Allen’s extended play (18 of 34 for 162 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT).
The last time Buffalo and Chicago faced each other in the regular season came on Christmas Eve during the 2022 campaign. That game was historically cold — a Bills regular-season road game record-cold of 9 degrees Fahrenheit — and featured 30-40 mph wind gusts that left the sun-soaked air a brutal -12 degrees at game time.
Having survived initial troubles against Chicago, Buffalo ended up winning the game easily, 35-13, thanks to a dominant second-half performance where they outscored the Bears 29-3. Quarterback Josh Allen was a dual-threat nightmare for Chicago, complementing a run game that put up a total of 254 yards on the strength of running backs Devin Singletary and James Cook. The win allowed the Bills to capture the AFC East division title a third-consecutive time.
