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Updated Chicago Bears Game-by-Game Predictions Before the NFL Schedule Release

1+ hour, 5+ min ago  (753+ words) ON FEBRUARY 9, we dropped our Chicago Bears" week-by-week game picks for 2026, which was just silly, because" At that point, we didn"t know which free agents the Bears would sign. At that point, we didn"t know who the Bears…...

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Chicago Bears Day One 53-Man Roster, Predicted (Spoiler Alert: Caleb Williams Made the Team)

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (801+ words) IT'S NOT LIKE we Chicago Bears nerds are obsessive or anything. It's not like we obsess over restructured contracts or anything. Like we'd never spend even a minute of our busy days discussing the fact that the backup tight end…...

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Chicago Bears 2026 Draft: Now That I've Thought About It. ..

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (460+ words) I dropped the above nugget " along with an A+ grade " last Friday morning, about ten hours after the Theineman selection. Because, yay. The Chicago Sports Stuff newsroom was far less inspired with the Bears" Day 2 moves, as the Midway Monsters…...

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Chicago Bears: Dillon Thieneman Draft Grade " Better Lucky Than Good

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (598+ words) THIS ISN'T Nikola Jokic or Draymond Green slipping to the second round of the NBA Draft. Nor is it Dan Marino sliding down to #27 in the NFL Draft. Nor is it Larry Walker going undrafted by any team in Major…...

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NFL Draft: Who Will the Chicago Bears Select in Round One? The Unscientific Odds-On Favorites

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (737+ words) THE NFL'S NEWS CYCLE is absurd. It's beyond 24/7/365 " the league has somehow bent the space-time continuum and created a 14. 2-month calendar year. But they had no choice. I mean, how else could they squeeze in the regular season, the playoffs,…...

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Chicago Bears Mock Draft Roundup, Too Many Options Edition

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (832+ words) REGULAR CHICAGO SPORTS STUFF READERS are well aware of my stance on mock drafts: Love reading "em. Hate writing "em. To the uninitiated, slapping together a mock draft, regardless of the sport, probably seems like cake: Copy/paste the draft…...

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3 Old-School Chicago Bears Quarterbacks I Loved to Hate and Hated to Love

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1050+ words) DID YOU KNOW that since 1970, the Chicago Bears have had 6, 216 different starting quarterbacks, give or take? And did you know that during that same stretch, the Green Bay Packers have had four starting quarterbacks, give or take? The Bears" record…...

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Eight Chicago Bears 2026 Mock Drafts, Courtesy of Machines

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (547+ words) LAST SPRING, I was freelancing for a couple of major sports outlets, both of whom asked me to write a mock NFL first round draft. Each of the articles got a goodly number of clicks. So they asked for more....

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2026 Chicago Bears Defense vs. 2025 Chicago Bears Defense: Better, Worse or Whatever?

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (771+ words) SOMETHING SMARTY-PANTS sports pundits tend to forget is that pro athletes are people too " people just like us, except with way more strength and speed, and way way more money. I'll include myself amongst the smarty-pantses. It's also easy for…...

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How the Chicago Bears Can (Maybe) Acquire Maxx Crosby

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (865+ words) IT WAS the push notification heard "round the world. On Tuesday night, while you were putting on your jammies and getting ready for bed " or at least while I was putting on my jammies and getting ready for bed " NFL…...