The first “unofficial” depth chart of the preseason is out.

The first padded practice of the season is in the books and now the Chicago Bears have released their initial depth chart of the preseason.

The chart doesn’t mean much and should be seen as “unofficial.” It contains few surprises for a team with very few starting position battles.

Caleb Williams is the only rookie listed as a starter, unless you count punter Tory Taylor, too but he has no other competition.

Rome Odunze is listed as the back up to Keenan Allen.

Center, where the only true starting battle...

The first padded practice is over!

Fans were back at Halas Hall today for the first Chicago Bears training camp practice with pads on, so you know what that means—plenty of bootlegged videos on the Twitter timeline featuring the beloved.

The defense appears to be getting the better of the offense still, which, again, is quite normal at camps. The Bears are in year three of the defensive scheme, while only a few months into Shane Waldron’s new offense with a rookie QB1 and plenty of new players on that side of the ball.

But that’s not to say Caleb...

Our staff are revealing their predictions for a few Bears 2024 season awards.

All week, we’ve been rolling our season predictions for the Chicago Bears in these six categories in a roundtable series.

1) Offensive MVP
2) Defensive MVP
3) Breakout Player (Offense)
4) Breakout Player (Defense)
5) First-time Pro Bowler
6) Bounceback player

We’re up to number five in the series, so here are our predictions for which Chicago player will make his first Pro Bowl.

Dan Durkin

First-time Pro-Bowler: LB T.J. Edwards

Edwards was robbed last season. He won’t be this year. In his first year with...

Rich Eisen and Mark Sanchez shared their takes on why it’s totally possible

Preseason action is only days away and with all of the excitement of an ascending young, roster and a generational QB prospect in rookie Caleb Williams you’d be forgiven for looking ahead to the regular season. Recently though, some national names have taken things a step beyond even the regular season into a realm many in Chicago dare not dream: the POST-season.

I kid, but envisioning the Bears to make the playoffs this season isn’t outlandish. Most project them around the .500 mark with Williams’ production largely...

With Training Camp getting under way, help your fellow fans arrive prepared.

Summer is reaching its pinnacle, meaning that Chicago Bears training camp is about to get started.

Whether you’ve been going for years or are going to make the trip for the first time, it’s important to remember a few things to make the experience as enjoyable as it can be.

Camp practices can be very hot and muggy, even if they are in the morning.

Training camp has changed a lot since the days of being held at college campuses like UW-Platteville or Olivet Nazarene in Bourbonnais.

Since...

Reports from training camp abound, Eberflus speaks and Owens prepares to support wife Simone Biles at Olympics

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For the 16th straight year, we’re bringing you who we believe will be the ten most important Chicago Bears for the upcoming season. Number one is head coach Matt Eberflus.

I don’t believe in Matt Eberflus as the head coach of the Chicago Bears.

I think he has a good defensive mind and is a good leader for his players, but his in-game management doesn't do it for me.

A coach can’t settle for field goal attempts when his opponent is scoring touchdowns.

A coach can’t sit on leads and hope for the best.

A coach can’t punt on fourth...

The Chicago Bears were back at Halas Hall today for another unpadded practice, but tomorrow, which also happens to be the first day fans will be in attendance, the team will come dressed in full gear and ready to hit.

One week from today, the Bears will be in Canton, Ohio, for the Hall of Fame Game against the Houston Texans, and it sounds like a decision to play rookie quarterback Caleb Williams still hasn’t been made, but they’ll get there shortly.

“We’ve talked about it, had lengthy conversations about it during that personnel meeting, had it with the coordinators...

Our staff is in the midst of revealing their predictions for a few Bears 2024 season awards.

This week, we’re going to roll out our season prediction for the Chicago Bears in these six categories in a roundtable series.

1) Offensive MVP
2) Defensive MVP
3) Breakout Player (Offense)
4) Breakout Player (Defense)
5) First-time Pro Bowler
6) Bounceback player

The offensive breakout player was yesterday, so here are our predictions for the Bears' defensive breakout player.

Dan Durkin

Breakout Player (Defense): CB Kyler Gordon

The young talent Ryan Poles has accumulated on the defensive side of the ball...

The new Bears wideout ranked highly in this year’s list.

New Chicago Bears WR Keenan Allen has been ranked as the 52nd best player in the NFL on this year’s NFL Top 100 list.

The tradition of the Top 100 has continued this year, with NFL players ranking their peers in order to forumlate the list. The list reveal started on Monday over on NFL+, where Bears DE Montez Sweet was revealed as No. 82 on the list. Allen becomes the second Bear on the list.

The Bears acquired Allen as a free agent in exchange for a fourth round...

Darnell Wright and Braxton Jones will be starting at tackle, but who will be their primary backup?

In our final installment of training camp battles, we look at the Chicago Bears swing tackle and who could emerge as the team’s primary backup at tackle.

There’s no questioning the starters. Darnell Wright will start at right tackle. Braxton Jones will start at left tackle. Who will be behind them? That’s anybody’s guess right now.

There are three contenders for the role of swing tackle. First up is the incumbent, Larry Borom. Borom was drafted during the Ryan Pace regime and is...

Greg Gabriel missed the mark earlier this year about the Bears quarterback situation, and he wants to get it on record.

It’s no secret that at the end of 2023 and earlier this year, I was against the Chicago Bears drafting Caleb Williams. I said so often on my Podcast, Gabriel Talks Football, and also on social media.

My reasoning was never about talent but rather Caleb Williams, the person. In fact, if you remember, I wrote an article on this same website about how Caleb Willimas was a generational football player who was the best quarterback prospect I’ve seen...