Biggest Strength: Offensive Weapons<\/p>\n
While quarterback Caleb Williams has already graduated to face-of-the-franchise status, he still has room to grow. Fortunately, he’ll get to operate with one of the NFL’s most complete skill groups in 2026. <\/p>\n
Chicago traded away wide receiver D.J. Moore, but the team still boasts an incredible collection of playmakers. <\/p>\n
The receiving corps is headlined by wideouts Luther Burden III, Rome Odunze, and free-agent addition Kalif Raymond, along with tight ends Colston Loveland and Cole Kmet. The Bears’ backfield, led by D’Andre Swift, Kyle Monangai, and Roschon Johnson, is deep and talented. <\/p>\n
Biggest Weakness: Edge-Rusher<\/p>\n
The Bears have a proven ability to battle back late in games\u2014they had seven fourth-quarter comebacks, including the postseason\u2014but they’ve had to play catch-up because of a lackluster defense. <\/p>\n
An underwhelming pass rush was the team’s biggest issue in 2025, and the Bears have done little to address it. Montez Sweat recorded 10 of the team’s 35 sacks last season, and defensive tackle Gervon Dexter Sr. was the only other player to top five sacks. <\/p>\n
While Chicago did add interior defensive linemen Neville Gallimore and Kentavius Street this offseason, it added nothing to its edge rotation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Biggest Strength: Offensive Weapons While quarterback Caleb Williams has already graduated to face-of-the-franchise status, he still has room…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-827023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}