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How the Chicago Bears Can (Maybe) Acquire Maxx Crosby

8+ hour, 48+ min 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…...

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Chicago Bears Free Agency Grades: Stealing WR/KR Kalif Raymond from Detroit

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (277+ words) Chicago Bears Free Agency Grades: Stealing WR/KR Kalif Raymond from Detroit'Substack Chicago Bears Free Agency Grades: Stealing WR/KR Kalif Raymond from Detroit The Bears get their WR3/4 from a NFC North rival at a not-bad-but-not-great price. THE WHO: Kalif…...

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Chicago Bears 2026 Free Agency: Dust Settled, Grades Revisited

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (894+ words) LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON, hours after the Chicago Sports Stuff newsroom had shut down for the evening, the Chicago Bears capped off the first day of the NFL's 2026 free agency cycle by bringing back a pair of super-unimpactful-players: QB Case Keenum…...

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Chicago Bears Free Agency Grades: Grabbing LB Devin Bush from Cleveland

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (240+ words) Chicago Bears Free Agency Grades: Grabbing LB Devin Bush from Cleveland'Substack Chicago Bears Free Agency Grades: Grabbing LB Devin Bush from Cleveland Midway Monsters scoop up a Day One starter. THE WHO: Devin Bush, balls-to-the-wall LB from Cleveland via Pittsburgh…...

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Chicago Bears Free Agency Grades: LB D'Marco Jackson Returns

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (73+ words) THE WHO: D'Marco Jackson, dogged linebacker. 2026 Salary Cap Charge: $3,047,500 (0.99% of cap) 2026 Cash Payout: $4,000,000 (1.90% of spending) 2026 Cash to Cap Ratio: 1.31 THE VERDICT: Jackson probably cost a scootch more than the Bears would've liked to have spent, but he's got game, and…...

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Chicago Bears Free Agency Grades: Snatching CB Coby Bryant From the Seahawks

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (78+ words) Chicago Bears Free Agency Grades: Snatching CB Coby Bryant From the Seahawks'Substack THE WHO: Coby Bryant, starting DB for reigning the Super Bowl champs. Three years, $40 million THE VERDICT: This feels like a bit of an overpay " not massive, just…...

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Chicago Bears Free Agency & Trade Grade Updates to Come — So For Now, Let's Hype My New Book & Record Projects

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (184+ words) LET'S BE HONEST HERE, people: The phrase "legal tampering" is the dumbest thing the National Football League has ever concocted. Even dumber than the New York Jets. For those unfamiliar with legal tampering " and if that's you, consider yourself lucky…...

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BREAKING: Chicago Bears Trade WR D.J. Moore to Buffalo Bills for...Not Much. Trade Grades Included

6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (355+ words) THE CHICAGO BEARS-BUFFALO BILLS Super Bowl is going to be really, really interesting. On Thursday morning, NFL Insider Adam Schefter reported that the Bears dealt wide receiver D.J. Moore to the Buffalo Bills; Chicago's return is still under discussion, but according…...

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Shocking Chicago Bears Retirement: Interwebs, Pundits (Mostly) Send Love

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (436+ words) YESTERDAY, for the first time in about three weeks, we didn't think about the Chicago Bears' Indiana fiasco. On Tuesday afternoon, in a bombshell announcement that will have a franchise-altering domino effect on the Bears' upcoming draft and free agent…...

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Chicago Bears 2026 NFL Draft: The Experts Hath Spoken

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (640+ words) KINDA LOVE reading NFL mock drafts. Kinda hate writing NFL mock drafts. Okay, "hate" is a wild overstatement, but my beloved regular readers are far too aware that parallel construction is one of the hallmarks of my Chicago Sports Stuff…...