{"id":687399,"date":"2026-06-06T05:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687399\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:41:26","slug":"roster-moves-chicago-bears-sign-thieneman-and-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687399\/","title":{"rendered":"Roster Moves: Chicago Bears sign Thieneman and Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thieneman was selected by Chicago in the first round (No. 25 overall) of the 2026 NFL Draft. An AP First-Team All-America selection in 2025, Thieneman started all 15 games at Oregon (2025), earning First-Team All-Big Ten Conference honors after totaling 86 tackles, two interceptions and seven total passes defensed. Thieneman transferred to Oregon after two seasons at Purdue (2023-24), starting his career with the Boilermakers with AP Third-Team All-America recognition and earning First-Team Freshman All-America status. Over his two seasons at Purdue, Thieneman started all 24 games played, totaling over 100 tackles in each of his two seasons of action, amassing six interceptions. As a freshman (2023), Thieneman was named the recipient of the Thompson-Randle El Big Ten Freshman of the Year Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thieneman was selected by Chicago in the first round (No. 25 overall) of the 2026 NFL Draft. An&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[73291,27962,399,68038,398,396,397,272814,99],"class_list":["post-687399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-article-roster-moves","tag-dillon-thieneman","tag-football","tag-logan-jones","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-non-gameday-football-game-related-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687399","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=687399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}