Where do the Chicago Bears stand in 2025 free agency?

Here’s how much cap space the Bears have, a list of all their free agents, plus an explainer of what each type of free agent is.

NFL free agency will begin on March 12, with the early negotiation period starting two days prior. According to Over The Cap, the Chicago Bears currently have the sixth-most salary cap space available at $63,113,403. The Bears are also ranked seventh in effective cap space, which is how much OTC projects a team will have after signing at least 51 players and the 2025 rookie class to its roster, at $54,124,590.

The New England Patriots and Las Vegas Raiders are 1-2 in the cap space rankings, but the Bears will have plenty to offer up to their top choice, whomever that may be.

**cough cough Trey Smith**

The Bears aren’t expected to use a franchise or transition tag on any of their free agents, but the tag could have an impact on who will be available. The window to tag players is from February 18 to March 4.

Chicago Bears 2025 free agents

Unrestricted Free Agents: Players with four or more accrued seasons and are out of contract can sign with any club. An accused season is six or more regular season games spent on a team’s active/inactive, reserve/injured, or reserve/physically unable to perform lists.

Teven Jenkins, G

Coleman Shelton, C

Matt Pryor, OL

Larry Borom, OL

Jake Curhan, OL

Darrynton Evans, RB

Travis Homer, RB

Stephen Carlson, TE

Marcedes Lewis, TE

Keenan Allen, WR

DeAndre Carter, WR

Nsimba Webster, WR

Collin Johnson, WR

Amen Ogbongbemiga, LB

Darrell Taylor, DE

Jacob Martin, DE

Byron Cowart, DT

Adrian Colbert, S

Tarvarius Moore, S

Scott Daly, LS

Patrick Scales, LS

Restricted Free Agents: Players with three accrued seasons and an expiring contract. The RFA’s current team can make them a qualifying offer, at which time they can negotiate with other teams; however, the current team can match the offer to retain their rights or allow them to leave and secure draft-choice compensation depending on the level of the offer made.

Jack Sanborn, LB

Josh Blackwell, CB

Jaylon Jones, CB

Chris Williams, DT

Doug Kramer, C

Exclusive Rights Free Agents: Players with two or fewer seasons of accrued service and an expired contract. If their team tenders the player a qualifying one-year offer, the player must either sign it or sit out.

Bill Murray, OL

Daniel Hardy, DE

Ameer Speed, CB

Douglas Coleman III, S

Jonathan Ford, DT

How many of these free agents will return for Ben Johnson’s new offense and Dennis Allen’s new defense?