ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler has been releasing the results of his annual survey over the last couple of weeks. Fowler surveys general managers, coaches, and scouts and asks them who the best player in the league is at each position. He then puts together a ranking at each position.

Today, Fowler unveiled the quarterbacks.

Josh Allen supplanted Patrick Mahomes for the top spot, and Mahomes fell to second. Matthew Stafford, Joe Burrow, and Lamar Jackson round out the top 5.

Dak Prescott is ranked sixth, Justin Herbert is seventh, Drake Maye is eighth, and Jared Goff is ninth.

But look who...

Heading into the 2026 season, expectations are high for the Bears’ offense. The early returns under Ben Johnson were very encouraging, as he finished with the No. 9 offense in the NFL by Pro Football Network’s Offense Impact Scoring metric. They also finished with the sixth-most amount of yardage gained, marking a massive turnaround from years past.

Coming off of a strong offensive performance as a unit, there is naturally plenty of interest in the Bears’ top offensive players as options from a fantasy football perspective. As a result, the top websites through which to play fantasy football have set...

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**WR Trent Taylor Announces Retirement After Seven-Year NFL Career – 49ers.com **Taylor spent four seasons with the 49ers before continuing his career with the Cincinnati Bengals and Chicago Bears.

Chicago Bears sign TE Sam Roush to rookie contract – Bears Wire USA Today With Roush signing his contract, the Bears have all of their rookie draft picks — safety Dillon Thieneman, center Logan Jones, Roush, wide receiver Zavion Thomas, cornerback Malik Muhammad, linebacker Keyshaun Elliott and defensive tackle Jordan van den Berg — under contract with training camp set to kick off later this month....

The Chicago Bears roster continues to earn praise from around the league. For the seventh time, ESPN is polling 70 executives, coaches, and scouts for their take on the best players at individual positions in the league. Chicago’s right tackle, Darnell Wright, is 6th on the list of offensive tackles. The article assumes Penei Sewell switches to the left side, which makes Wright the highest-ranked right tackle on the list.

Fowler explains that Wright was fourth in ESPN’s “pass block win rate” at 95.2%, and that he was praised for his “power and brute strength”. One voter claimed, “He can...

As we assess the next Dynasty roster of the Windy City Gridiron Dynasty League, we are looking at Mason West’s roster. Mason won the league in 2026.

Mason, like Dan Meehan (yesterday’s analysis), has been featured on the 2nd City Gridiron Podcast feed and has also done a lot of NFL Draft content. Mason’s roster is interesting; there is certainly talent on the roster, but Mason believes in building through trade, not the draft. He has traded away all his draft picks in 2027, 2028, and 2029. He has no way to get younger, so he has truly gone all-in...

If the Chicago Bears are good again, they’ll surely get some individual accolades, and 49% of our Windy City Gridiron voters believe they’ll have three or four Pro Bowlers this season. We posed the question earlier this week, and WCG member Turkeyfoot predicted six! Guard Joe Thuney, right tackle Darnell Wright, quarterback Caleb Williams, tight end Colston Loveland, and newcomer defenders linebacker Devin Bush and safety Coby Bryant.

The Bears had four last season, but three of those players are no longer playing in Chicago

I only predicted five in 2026: Thuney, Wright, Caleb, Loveland, and cornerback Jaylon Johnson, and...

Besides the Windy City Gridiron version of the SB Nation Reacts polls we publish here, they also have weekly emailed surveys covering the entire National Football League. You can sign up here to participate in those. This week’s version featured a couple of questions about the offseason, and another asking: Which first-round draft pick will outperform his draft status?

The first six rounders in the graphic below were the options, and I always find it interesting when the Chicago Bears are featured in these national surveys. As fans, we can be a bit biased about our guys, so that national...

Yes, I put coaches on my list from time to time, and considering the Chicago Bears didn’t do much on the defensive line this offseason, there’s a lot riding on Dennis Allen to get his scheme humming.

The Bears are basically bringing back the same group of defensive ends, and at defensive tackle, they swapped out Andrew Billings for Neville Gallimore. They churned out the bottom of the depth chart on the d-line, but nothing of major significance was added. The Bears feel they have the right guys in place, so it falls on Allen to take the same group...

The bar was set high for Colston Loveland when he was selected by the Chicago Bears with the 10th overall pick in last year’s draft. It may have taken some time for the offense to get going, but by the end of the year, Loveland was easily one of Caleb Williams’ most sought-after and dependable targets in the passing game. Clutch catches leading to critical first downs, and a thrilling game-winning touchdown against the Cincinnati Bengals highlighted a rookie campaign from Loveland that saw the Michigan product amass 713 receiving yards on 58 catches, with 6 scores. The production has...

Yesterday, we delivered grades for the 14 participants in the Windy City Gridiron Dynasty League. Today, we are going to start a series assessing all 14 rosters and their strengths and weaknesses. The first person up is Dan Meehan. Dan has been a regular on our sister podcast network, 2nd City Gridiron, where he’s hosted a podcast for the last few years. He’s an avid college football fan and knows draft prospects very well.

He’s been a middling team in the league for several years. He has a good team, but rarely fields a team that is a true title...

The Chicago Bears made massive strides in 2025, but last year is last year, and they’re turning the page to a new chapter. To have sustained success, they’ll need several players to break out, so here are my top 5 who I believe will.

Picks 10-6 can be found here!

5. WR Rome Odunze

Despite some less-than-ideal moments early in the season for Odunze, he was well on his way to his first 1,000-yard season and potentially 10-plus receiving touchdowns. Injuries happen in the game, and the third-year receiver deserves plenty of credit for trying to play through a stress...

In the next semifinal matchup of our 2026 All-Time Historical Chicago Bears Fantasy Draft Tournament, we have Bryan Orenchuk’s (2) Blue Ridge Better Bests vs Jacob Infante’s (3) Evil Demons from Hell.

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

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

Bryan spotlights his team here, and Jacob breaks down 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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