Now that the bulk of the acquisition period from the offseason is in the rearview mirror, it’s time to take stock of what each team has done. While the 2026 NFL regular season is still three and a half months away, most of the heavy lifting in the roster-building department is out of the way, which means teams will turn their focus to the rest of their offseason program and to getting ready for training camp. Predicting success based on “unofficial” depth charts is a futile process, but it’s at least worth taking a more zoomed-out approach to wrap up...

The Bears announced four signings on Monday, two of which coming at the wide receiver position. In addition, undrafted rookie wide receiver Squirrel White was placed on the reserve/retired list.

The signings Chicago made are as follows:

• WR Kyron Hudson
• LB Wayne Matthews III
• WR Scotty Miller
• LB Jon Rhattigan

The most notable player of the bunch is Scotty Miller, who spent four seasons with the Buccaneers from 2019 to 2022 and won a Super Bowl with them in his single season in the NFL. He has since had stints as a backup with the Falcons...

The NFL will officially drop the 2026 schedule in a big prime-time special on Thursday, May 14, at 7 p.m. CT on NFL Network. The Chicago Bears, and the other 31 teams in the League, will also have a fun schedule release video prepped and ready to hit social media at that same time.

However, various NFL broadcast partners will be able to announce some of their games before Thursday, so we’ll track some of those here. We’ll also track the leaks from local and national reporters on the key dates around the League, and for the Bears’ 18-week schedule...

THE DAILY SPONGIE SPECIAL

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Undrafted QB Miller Moss unlikely to make Bears’ roster this season, but there’s value in developing him

Miller, who backed up Caleb Williams at USC, is the fourth-string quarterback and likely headed for the practice squad if he impresses in training camp. But that could be the first step toward sustaining a career.

Bears top pick Dillon Thieneman knows to ‘just keep building’

Sounds good.

Bears sign veteran WR Scotty Miller after weekend tryout

Nice to have more depth.

Bears DC Dennis Allen: Not much conversation about bringing in 8-time Pro Bowl DE Cam Jordan...

Let’s play out a little thought exercise.

You are plucked from your couch and asked to conduct the NFL draft for the Chicago Bears. You’ll sit in a room with a landline phone to call in the picks to New York and you won’t be let out until the draft concludes. No cell phones, no internet, no scouts, no meddling front office people. Coach Johnson has handed you a rough list of positional priorities to fill his squad (no doubling up on a position!) and you’re handed a sacred document that shall be your guide through the draft – the...

The Chicago Bears are back to square one, “at the bottom again,” according to head coach Ben Johnson. However, that’s not really true. They now carry with them the expectation that they will be a good team. “Improvement” isn’t enough–they need to keep winning, and that will be hard so long as the defense continues to struggle. So, what does a “good” team look like on defense? How are such defenses constructed, and how far away is Chicago from its peers?

Defining “Good” Benchmarks

Any time I perform one of these assessments, it’s a challenge to define the candidate...

The 32nd annual NFLPA Rookie Premiere is set to take place in Los Angeles, California from May 14-16, and the Chicago Bears will be represented by one of their new wide receivers at the event.

The team’s third round pick out of Mississippi State, Zavion Thomas, has been announced as one of the 42 rookies who will be attending the event.

The wide-ranging event features trading card photo shoots with Topps, business education classes for the players, as well as autograph sessions and content creation opportunities. Fanatics and EA Sports will be at the event, as well as New Era,...

The Chicago Bears continue to invest in Ben Johnson’s vision with creating more competition across the entire roster. Following an impressive tryout, a homecoming and reunion are taking place simultaneously. A move that also adds another Super Bowl champion into their locker room.

Per Drew Rosenhaus and Robert Bailey via Adam Schefter of ESPN the Bears have signed veteran receiver Scotty Miller. Scotty was most recently beamed up by the Pittsburgh Steelers following a one-year stay with the Atlanta Falcons. Terms of the deal were not publicly disclosed at the time this article was published.

The Barrington, IL. native returns...

I was ecstatic when the Chicago Bears selected Oregon safety Dillon Thieneman with the twenty-fifth overall pick of the 2026 NFL Draft. It was a perfect marriage of the best player available and team need, and he should be a week one starter roaming the Chicago secondary for a decade.

ESPN’s Matt Bowen, a seven-year NFL veteran and Glenbard West High School (IL) alum, has been a staple on local radio and an ESPN analyst for over a decade. When it comes to breaking down secondary play, there’s no one better than him, so his latest article piqued my interest....

Chicago Bears fans have been pleased with the team’s wide receiver room entering the 2026 season, and why not? Both Luther Burden and Rome Odunze have shown promise early in their careers, Jahdae Walker looks like he could be a contributor despite being a UDFA last year, and the Bears added Mr. Versatility, Kalif Raymond, in free agency.

Teams carry 5 or 6 wide receivers on their 53-man roster, and with only 4 names certain to be a part of the room, it wasn’t shocking that the Bears added a wide receiver in the NFL Draft. It might have been...

No matter where the Chicago Bears end up playing in the years to come, the team will likely remain a constant presence in the city of Chicago (and beyond).

The Bears recently highlighted the charitable outreach they have done over the course of the last year in a release on the team’s website as part of their 2025-2026 community report.

The full report highlights efforts that the team and Bears Care (their official charitable arm) have contributed toward. Right off the bat, the report notes that the team has contributed $2.8 million toward youth football, women’s cancer initiatives, education, and...

Before the 2026 NFL Draft, you might have figured wide receiver would be last on the list of the Bears’ draft priorities with Rome Odunze, Luther Burden III, Jahdae Walker, and the newly signed Kalif Raymond in the fold, not to mention having an elite pass-catching tight end in Colston Loveland on the roster.

If you did think that, you were mistaken. The Chicago Bears spent a third-round pick on a slot receiver/weapon in LSU’s Zavion Thomas, much to the chagrin of the fanbase.

Aside from the fact that Thomas almost certainly could’ve been had on Day 3 somewhere, you...