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**Colston Loveland Fans the Flames of the Bears-Packers Rivalry – Sports Illustrated Chicago Bears **Colston Loveland appeared on the Bussin’ With The Boys podcast this week, and the Bears-Packers rivalry was brought up. Co-host Taylor Lewan asked Loveland if it was comparable in scale to the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry in college football.

**Chicago Bears announce Varsity Bears as part of 2026 Chicago Bears Training Camp by LRS – ChicagoBears.com **As part of 2026 Chicago Bears Training Camp by LRS, the Chicago Bears will take their August 10th walk-through practice on the road to Stevenson High...

On her latest Making Mosters, Taylor Doll was joined by former Chicago Bears Pro Bowler, Jerry Azumah, who previews the upcoming Bears’ season. Azumah played cornerback for seven years in Chicago, so you know he had some thoughts on the Bears’ secondary.

“I really like that group,” Azumah said about Chicago’s defensive backs. “I think the group is very athletic. Obviously, they have some veteran leadership that’s there, and they have some all-star presence that’s there as well.”

Right now, it appears the starters will be Jaylon Johnson and Tyrique Stevenson at corner, Kyler Gordon at the nickel, and Coby...

The Major League Baseball All-Star game is typically about as far as you can go in the sports-watching universe to find some Chicago Bears talk.

But Chicago Cubs outfield Pete Crow-Armstrong makes things a little different.

During last night’s All-Star game, PCA was mic’d up during an inning and the broadcasters asked him if he caught Chicago Bears fever last season.

Of course, he was spotted at a few games and was seen alongside Caleb Williams at games this offseason.

It turns out PCA has been a Bears fan much longer.

When asked if his father (a Naperville native), passed...

We’ve looked at two offensive and two defensive training camp battles, so let’s take a minute and look at one on special teams. This one may not interest every Bears fan, but it’ll definitely interest some because the Bears could have an interesting battle at long snapper during training camp.

The Bears have had a little inconsistency at long snapper over the last few years. Not so much on performance, but just on stability. The Bears have gone from Patrick Scales to Scott Daly and now to either Luke Elkin or Beau Gardner in just a couple of seasons. But...

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**McCoppin: Can Indiana pay for a Bears stadium? Analysts ask how it will pay its debt as some residents balk at new taxes. – Chicago Tribune **A buyer should beware of a Bentley on sale for half price, says public finance analyst Geoffrey Propheter. So should the public on a sports stadium, Propheter says.

**Tyler Dragon’s Perfect free agent fits: Best landing spots for these 12 NFL players – USA Today **Edge Jadeveon Clowney (2025 team: Cowboys). Best fit: Chicago Bears. The Bears need more pass rush juice on the outside. The 33-year-old Clowney can...

In the Finals of our 2026 All-Time Historical Chicago Bears Fantasy Draft Tournament, we have Jack M Silverstein’s (1) Team Sweetness vs Bryan Orenchuk’s (2) Blue Ridge Better Bests!

• For more details on the rules of the draft, you can click here.

• You can check out the Google Doc with our entire draft here.

Jack breaks down his full team right here, and Bryan dives into his team here.

Check out each position group in the image sliders below, and then vote for the GM who drafted the best in the poll.

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Ben Johnson has earned a lot of fans in the 18 months since he was hired to be the 18th coach in Bears franchise history. This is with good reason — Johnson, 40, won the NFC North, won a playoff game, reset a ‘Flus’d culture, and fed the City of Chicago.

Still, Johnson is not a finished product.

Johnson would be the first to admit it, too. In a press conference in March, Johnson reflected on a passing game that “leaves something to be desired.” As he put it, “coaching-wise, we need to do a better job getting the primary...

There’s some buzz surrounding Caleb Williams this week due to him being picked by a poll of coaches, scouts, and executives as a top 10 quarterback in the league, so I wanted to check the pulse of Chicago Bears fans and get their expectations for him this season.

As we all know, Caleb set the franchise record for passing yards a season ago, with 3,942, breaking Erik Kramer’s 30-year-old record of 3,838. Williams’ was done in a 17-game season, so he averaged 8 fewer yards per game (231.9) than Kramer (239.9), who set his record in 16 games.

The all-time...

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**Execs, coaches, scouts rank top NFL quarterbacks for 2026 – ESPN **10. Caleb Williams, Chicago Bears. “He’s the most dynamic of the group,” one GM said. “He’s got the arm talent and overall athleticism suited for today’s game.”

**Bears’ Caleb Williams Edges Packers’ Jordan Love for No. 10 Spot on ESPN’s QB Rankings – Sports Illustrated Chicago Bears **A tiebreaker separated four quarterbacks for the final spot, and evaluators pointed to one specific trait that pushed Chicago’s passer over the top.

[**Caleb Williams among 6 Bears to Allegedly Have Madden NFL 27 Overall Rating Leaked...

It’s ranking season across the NFL right now. Just over a month ago, Windy City Gridiron ranked our top 50 players in the NFC North heading into 2026. The NFL Top 100 is being revealed slowly but surely leading up to the season, and ESPN has been ranking the top 10 players at each position according to NFL executives, scouts, and coaches. Most notably for the latter, Bears quarterback Caleb Williams cracked the top 10.

Pro Football Network recently dropped its top 100 players in the NFL heading into the new season. I had the privilege of not only being...

This is the most anticlimactic list we do around here, because in 14 of the previous 17 installments of this annual ranking, the quarterback had been number one. While I gave Staley the Bear serious consideration this year, let’s make it 15 of 18 with Caleb Williams taking the top spot.

I only had Caleb third in his rookie season. He was set up to be a part of the offense, and not the focal point. If the Bears were going to win games with him as a rookie, they’d do so with him playing a role, not leading the...

We move back to the offensive side of the ball with our next training camp battle in our series, and this time, we are focused on the offensive line.

If I told you 12 months ago that center was going to be a key training camp battle heading into the 2026 season, you would have thought something must have gone terribly wrong in 2025. The Bears had struggled for years to get the center position right, so they finally decided to fix the problem by going out and getting the best free agent center available, Drew Dalman.

But things didn’t...