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As the 2024 rookie class takes the practice field for the first time, here’s what to watch.
The Chicago Bears have a small, but exciting rookie class for 2024.
Caleb Williams and Rome Odunze are making themselves at home in Chicago, taking in a Chicago Cubs and Chicago Sky games this past week.
But on Thursday, the rookies rolled into Halas Hall to get ready for rookie minicamp which opens today. (Check out the videos and pics below)
Rookie minicamp always opens up the start of spring practices for every NFL team. OTAs will follow throughout May and mandatory minicamp...
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It’s Rookie Mini-Camp time, along with rookie and veteran try-outs and a chance to check out the UDFA’s
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Join the fellas LIVE at FIVE (CT) as they recap where the Bears roster stands now and give an early 53-man roster prediction.
The Chicago Bears rookies and a few younger veterans will be on the practice field tomorrow, so let’s recap where the roster stands now with a brand-new Bear Bones.
Dr. Mason West will be joined by Khari Thompson at 5:00 p.m. (CT) to discuss the roster's current state and make some early 53-man roster predictions. It should be a fun show, so stop by live to get in on the action!
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The schedule will be out in less than a week, we predict how often the Bears will be on national television.
Last year, with little expectation for the Chicago Bears to be a winning team, the Bears found themselves on primetime television four times (Monday night vs Vikings, Thursday night vs Panthers and Commanders, Sunday night vs Chargers). This was because the Bears are a historic franchise and they play in a large, football-hungry market.
With an exciting rookie quarterback in Caleb Williams now on the roster and the Bears being one of the media’s favorites to make a leap...
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Ryan Poles’ best pick of the 2024 NFL Draft might not even have been Caleb Williams or Rome Odunze, according to a recent analysis.
As I’ve written a number of times on this site, Ryan Poles deserves his flowers for turning the Chicago Bears — a dead-in-the-water franchise just two years ago — into a team with playoff (maybe even championship) aspirations in the very near future.
A recent analysis of Poles’ work in the 2024 NFL Draft suggests we might not be giving him enough credit.
Steven Patton, a data analyst and economist who frequently uses analytics to highlight...
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The Bears have finally announced their initial 9 man UDFA class!
The Chicago Bears will hold their rookie minicamp at Halas Hall this Friday and Saturday (May 10-11), giving us our first look at Caleb Williams, Rome Odunze, and the rest of the 2024 draft class. But that also means the Bears have finally announced their 2024 undrafted free agents.
Here’s their entire nine-man initial UDFA class.
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Anyone questioning Rome Odunze’s game needs to find a new hobby.
Prospect fatigue? Boredom? Haters gonna hate?
I’m not sure why I’l seeing questions about Rome Odunze’s route running come across my Twitter time line today, but Jeff Berckes responded better than I could have.
Jacob Infante chimed in with some knowledge about the Chicago Bears rookie wide receiver as well.
As a reminder, the Bears will hold their rookie minicamp on Friday and Saturday (May 10-11) at Halas Hall, so we’ll finally see Odunze and the rookie class, the undrafted free agents, some try out players, and a handful...
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Rookie mini-camp starts tomorrow, plus the most random Bears related Den picture ever...
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With the bulk of the acquisition period out of the way this offseason, we’ll take a deeper dive into how the Chicago Bears’ 90-man roster is shaping up. Are they ready to compete for an NFC North title this year? Or are they still a few moves away?
The 2024 NFL Draft, along with the bulk of this offseason's acquisition period, has concluded. The Chicago Bears, like many teams, will conduct their rookie minicamp this weekend and then start looking toward the next month of their offseason program to get a final evaluation of their 90-man roster heading into their...
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Taylor Doll talks with KU football beat writer Michael Swain about Bears' fifth-round draft pick Austin Booker.
Taylor Doll did a fantastic job getting predraft prospect intel on her Making Monsters podcast, so now that we know the Chicago Bears rookie class, she’s focusing on learning more about the players.
In her latest episode, she spoke with Michael Swain, who covers Kansas football for 247 Sports, about fifth-round pick Austin Booker.
They discuss his path to KU from Minnesota and his emergence as a redshirt sophomore into a high-upside draftable prospect.
Kansas wanted Booker to stay in school one more...
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Greg Gabriel thinks we should temper expectations for the 2024 season because if the Bears’ plans come together, they’ll be a team built for sustained success year after year.
With the drafting of a potentially great quarterback in Caleb Williams and wide receiver in Rome Odunze, plus the acquisitions of such top offensive players like wide receiver Keenan Allen and running back D’Andre Swift, many of the local media and fans feel the Bears are a good bet to become a Playoff team this season.
The Houston Texans did it last year with a roster on paper less than the...
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The Bears did some work on day two and three of the NFL Draft.
The Chicago Bears' first two draft picks have received plenty of praise league-wide, and rightfully so, but the other three members of the class have also received their fair share of kudos.
In a couple of recent articles, and one recent interview, some neat stuff has been said about third-round selection Kiran Amegadjie from Yale, fourth-rounder Tory Taylor from Iowa, and fifth-round pick Austin Booker.
ESPN’s Senior NFL Insider Jeremy Fowler spoke with NFL executives, scouts, and coaches to gain insight into each team’s draft class,...
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