{"id":503233,"date":"2026-03-04T13:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/503233\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:07:10","slug":"bears-pro-bowl-center-drew-dalman-expected-to-retire-after-five-nfl-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/503233\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears Pro Bowl center Drew Dalman expected to retire after five NFL seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dalman, just 27, was a part of the aforementioned Bears&#8217; O-line transformation a year ago. He signed a three-year deal to join <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/joseph-michael-thuney\/\" title=\"Joe Thuney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Thuney<\/a> and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jonah-jackson\/\" title=\"Jonah Jackson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonah Jackson<\/a> as newcomers, and the influx of big bodies worked to perfection.<\/p>\n<p>Though part of it was also a byproduct of his maturation, Williams went from taking a league-high 68 sacks as a rookie to just 24 in 2025, and PFF graded Chicago&#8217;s group as the third-best unit in the NFL. Dalman made his first Pro Bowl while grading out as the sixth-best center overall by PFF (77.5) and the seventh-best run blocker at center (78.9).<\/p>\n<p>He started every regular-season game and both playoff contests for the Bears, and his surprising decision will certainly require a recalibration in Chicago after losing such a sure blocker.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth-round pick by the Atlanta Falcons in 2021, Dalman hangs it up after 74 career appearances and 57 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dalman, just 27, was a part of the aforementioned Bears&#8217; O-line transformation a year ago. He signed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[6255,8850,28669,3,349,6257,215714,99,229290],"class_list":{"0":"post-503233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-chicago-bears","10":"tag-drew-dalman","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-no-minute","14":"tag-offseason-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tyler-biadasz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}