The 2025 NFL Draft is inching closer and closer. With the Chicago Bears addressing their biggest needs during free agency, the focus will now turn to lower-value positions like running back. With a brand new coaching staff and blocking scheme in place, we’ll take a look at 10 running backs who best fit.

The NFL world has swiftly moved on from Free Agency and has, in turn, shifted its focus to the 2025 NFL Draft. The Chicago Bears are no strangers to the general consensus around the league, believing they’ve had a strong offseason. We’ve been here before, as recently...

Lester made our pick in the 2025 SB Nation Writers’ Mock Draft!

In case you missed it, I managed to trade back from the tenth overall pick in our 2025 SB Nation Writers’ Mock Draft with the Denver Broncos for their first-rounder (20th overall), their 2025 second-round pick (51st), and their 2026 fifth-round pick. Shout out to Denver’s Mock GM Scotty Payne, Senior Writer at Mile High Report, for making the deal.

To catch you up, here’s the SB Nation Mock Draft story stream on how the mock draft has gone so far, and here’s where I went in the...

Why should the Chicago Bears go offensive line at 10? I’ll tell you why!

This is the first article in a four-part miniseries about what the Chicago Bears should do with the 10th pick of the draft. We will examine four different position groups and explain why drafting that position is the right move for the Bears.

We start with the offensive line.

Of course, the Chicago Bears need to draft an offensive lineman, specifically a left tackle. The Bears have done a great job putting some quick fixes on the interior of the offensive line with Drew Dalman, Joe...

Taylor Doll’s latest is all about the top running back prospects in the 2025 NFL Draft.

The two top running backs likely to be picked in the 2025 NFL Draft are Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty, followed by North Carolina’s Omarion Hampton. In Taylor Doll’s latest Making Monsters podcast, she interviewed USA Today’s Matt Hayes, who did an outstanding profile on Jeanty last year. She also spoke with Lauren Brownlow, who covers ACC football on the ACC Panic Room, and they talked about how much Hampton meant to the Tar Heels’ offense the last couple of years.

Hayes and Brownlow break...

Kyler Gordon gets paid, and the Draft Mockpocalypse hits full stride this week

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This marks the first of Ryan Poles’ draft picks to earn a contract extension past their rookie deal.

The Bears have signed cornerback Kyler Gordon to a three-year contract extension worth $40 million, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Sunday. The deal will kick in after the 2025 season, tying Gordon to the organization until 2028 and making him the highest-paid nickel cornerback in the league.

With an average of $13.3 million per year, Gordon becomes the 21st-highest paid cornerback in the NFL. The 25-year-old was the first draft pick that Ryan Poles made as the Bears’ general manager in 2022....

The Bears captured their 3rd championship in four seasons

In the 1940s, the Chicago Bears pushed the league into the future with their innovative wrinkle of adding motion to their T Formation. The Bears rode the offense to four championships over seven years from 1940 to 1946, interrupted by World War II.

Pigskin Dispatch is running a series covering all the NFL Championship games before the league merged with the AFL to create the Super Bowl. In case you missed it last week, I helped them by spotlighting Chicago’s fantastic 1940 season and the record-setting (73-0) Championship game and the...

Do you like doing mock drafts? Do you think your mocks are the best? Then join in our contest to find out if you are the greatest mock GM around!

Welcome to our SIXTH annual Windy City Gridiron Chicago Bears Mock Draft contest!

We all love playing around with mock draft simulations, so we wanted to give you guys a chance to show that you have some serious mock GM’ing skills with a contest. This is the sixth year we’ve done this, and each year we’ve had a different champion.

Could we finally have a WCG member hoist a second...

We wrap up another WCG roundtable!

We wrap up another draft-centric Chicago Bears roundtable today, where we’ve been asking our team to give the player they want at specific positions. In case you missed it, we already hit on running back, offensive line, and defensive line, so here’s our final question: Besides the trenches and running back, who is the one prospect you hope the Bears draft?

Here’s what we had to say.

Mongo Peanut: Wide out, Jaylin Noel. I am an Iowa State grad and have watched him be a fantastic contributor for 4 years in Ames. He is...

Earlier this week, we asked you guys to predict if the Chicago Bears would go over the FanDuel Sportsbook win total of 8.5 games, and 79% of you believe they will. A four-game improvement would be a significant jump, especially in the tough NFC North, but head coach Ben Johnson has much of our fan base amped up.

I understand the cautiously optimistic fans, because we’ve dealt with a lot of false starts over the last several years. Offseasons spent with loads of hope, only to watch the Bears disappoint us time and time again.

But this one feels different,...

The legendary QB called Williams after he pulled one of his autographed cards.

Bears QB Caleb Williams received an interesting call on Facetime on Friday night.

Former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Bucs QB Tom Brady called Williams after pulling a rare football card. The card in question? An autographed Caleb Williams Topps card, of course.

Check out the video below.

Of note, Brady asked Williams if the card was “gonna be worth more or less after this coming season?”

Williams responded, “A lot f——— more.”

Ah, music to this Bears fan’s ears.

Brady responded, “Good, that’s what I...

Which college programs on their own could do the best job of answering the needs of the Chicago Bears?

Mock Drafts are inherently artificial, but one thing that they do well is allow fans to get to learn about prospects they might not have seen. In this case, though, I also wanted to explore a tool that seems slightly less popular than the conventional mock draft simulator, and that’s the ESPN Analytics Draft Simulator. What’s interesting about this tool is that while it allows trades, it does not offer them to the user. Instead, the user needs to propose a...