Merry Christmas, Bears fans. I hope your morning has brought you everything you could want.
Time flies when your favorite team has 11 wins before Christmas morning:
I made this on Christmas Eve 2024. Guess I was a good boy last year because I’ve gotten everything I could’ve ever wanted in Year 1 from #DaBears head coach. pic.twitter.com/VgVthGV8bT — Funky Cold Luda (@lcm1986) December 25, 2025
This is why I try to be particular (to the point of being granular) when i...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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I promise this is the last time we’ll be talking about the onside kick that the Green Bay Packers lost against the Chicago Bears, but the topic needs to be brought up again, as special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia addressed the play for the first time in his Wednesday press conference with the media this […]
From Acme Packing Company
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The Green Bay Packers’ defense, without Micah Parsons and Evan Williams, held the Chicago Bears offense to just nine points for 59 minutes and 36 seconds of the football game. In the game’s final seconds, Bears quarterback Caleb Williams hit a touchdown throw to a wide-open Jahdae Walker after a coverage bust that allowed the […]
From Acme Packing Company
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The first installment of the Chicago Bears injury report ahead of the team’s Week 17 matchup against the San Francisco 49ers is here. I have some mixed feelings about what the first release looks like, but we can start with the good news accompanying wide receiver Luther Burden III.
Burden, who missed Saturday’s Week 16 win against the Green Bay Packers was limited in Wednesdays’ practice at Halas Hall. The rookie wideout missed all of the team’s practice sessions last week because of an ...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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Without checking, this might be the latest in the season I’ve done my first mock Bears offseason. It’s been for good reason, too: they’ve clinched a playoff spot with two games left to go in the 2025 regular season, and they’re 1.5 games ahead in first place in the NFC North. It’s been a fantastic […]
From Windy City Gridiron
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Chicago Bears’ kicker Cairo Santos was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week for Week 16. In the Chicago Bears’ win over the Green Bay Packers, Santos went 3-3 on field goals and made his lone extra point attempt in heavy wind gust conditions. Here’s a highlight of one of those field goals, from […]
From Windy City Gridiron
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If you want to understand why the Chicago Bears feel different today, why their offense has matured week by week, why the franchise finally looks like it has a long-term identity, you start with the relationship between Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson.
It wasn’t instant chemistry. It wasn’t a fairy-tale pairing from Day 1. It was work — real work — the kind that builds something durable. Williams admits now that during training camp, he genuinely wasn’t sure whether his new head coach even...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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The wild ride that has been the Cairo Santos experience in 2025 took another twist on Wednesday with the veteran Chicago Bears kicker being named the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week. Santos made all three of his field goals and his lone extra-point attempt in the Bears’ 22-16 overtime win against the Green Bay Packers. And while I imagine there were some other well-deserving recipients of the award, I imagine this put Santos over the top:
ISSO É CAIRO SANTOS, MEU AMIGO!🤩 📺: #GBvsCHI ...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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The betting market has no idea what to do with the San Francisco 49ers this season. Last week, oddsmakers installed the Niners as 5.5-point favorites. By the time the game kicked off, the line was down to 3.5, indicating that people with money who move markets believed the Colts were the right team. The 49ers […]
From Niners Nation
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Right now, on Christmas Eve, the biggest sports star in the city of Chicago is Caleb Williams. Full stop. His Ice-Man antics and explosive talent have filled a vacuum this city has been missing for a loooooooong time. And beating the Packers in overtime (the way he did on Saturday night) gave him an early career-defining moment we’ll probably never forget.
But over the summer, before Caleb and the Bears’ breakout, Pete Crow-Armstrong was kind of The Guy (or at least on his way). There are...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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The latest Bears Banter podcast is here! It’s a holiday week, so we wanted to make sure we got a podcast out quickly to talk about everything that happened. Amazingly, so much happened in the past week leading up to the holidays. The Chicago Bears epically beat the Green Bay Packers. The Bears clinched a […]
From Windy City Gridiron
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Christmastime has been a time of reflection for yours truly in recent years. So, with that in mind, I want to preemptively thank those of you who reach out this time of year. Your kindness, consideration, and love is always appreciated. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s talk about the playoff-bound Chicago Bears.
I hadn’t thought a ton about Bears cornerback Kyler Gordon since he was placed on injured reserve until I saw this tweet from Sun-Times reporter Jason Lieser:
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From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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Week 16 brought Saturday night football too Chicago as the rematch that we’d all been waiting for took place at Soldier Field. Both the Bears and the Packers clearly made adjustments to their game plans entering this one, with the Bears defense notably playing a more “bend-don’t-break” style to limit Green Bay’s opportunities for explosive […]
From Windy City Gridiron
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Week 16 of the NFL regular season came to a close with 17 Maryland football alumni seeing the field. Veteran wide receivers D.J. Moore and Stefon Diggs both had significant performances to push their respective teams closer to the playoff stage. Moore made the game-winning catch to seal a marquee win over the Green Bay […]
From Testudo Times
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The Detroit Lions aren’t quite dead yet. If the improbable results of them finishing out by winning their two remaining games (at Vikings, at Bears), combined with the Green Bay Packers losing out (vs. 49ers, at Vikings), happen, the Lions will have managed to sneak their way into the postseason. But after Sunday’s loss to […]
From Pride Of Detroit
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Ken’s Note: I’m traveling the country for the next week or so, but never fear, Denmaster Jack has you covered for all the latest. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to everybody! THE DAILY SPONGIE SPECIALS BEARSSSSSS First impression: Bears’ Caleb Williams, Ben Johnson mesh after rocky startWilliams said early in his time with Johnson he […]
From Windy City Gridiron
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This Chicago Bears team meets the moment unlike any I can remember since the Super Bowl. Ben Johnson has the team playing confidently and with focus. Coming off another late, near-miraculous win, the team is in the playoffs and is in position to clinch their division. It’s going to be an interesting finish to the […]
From Windy City Gridiron
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Welcome to the latest episode of Bears Over Beers! This week, join our hosts Ryan Droste and Bryan Orenchuk as they as they get you ready for week 17 of the 2025 Chicago Bears season! Grab some spiked egg nog (or some beer) and join the boys as they celebrate the Bears clinching their entry into the […]
From Windy City Gridiron
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The Chicago Bears are sending three players to the Pro Bowl Games in 2026. And while Drew Dalman, Joe Thuney, and Kevin Byard all deserve to go, that they are not being joined by Nahshon Wright legitimately left me flabbergasted. I’m miffed. And judging by the reactions on social media, a whole bunch of Bears fans are with me in feeling that way. But as it turns out, we are not alone in our disappointment.
This is what Green Bay Packers star Micah Parsons had to say about Nahshon Wright’s...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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2) Finally, everyone can shut up about Drake Maye not having a 300-yard passing game. Not that he NEEDED a 380-yard game to prove how well he was playing this year for the 12-3 Patriots. But the box score watchers weren’t going to be satisfied until he did. Well, there you go: 380 and a […]
From Windy City Gridiron
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The Bears’ overtime thriller against the Packers in Week 16 was perhaps the most significant regular-season victory in recent memory, and it allowed them to take control of the NFC North with a chance to clinch the division this week. Before we get into how, let’s take a look at the good, better, and best from their Week 16 victory.
Good: Cairo Santos
Cairo Santos has come under fire plenty in recent seasons due to has lack of consistency from long range, and sometimes inside that ra...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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The Chicago Bears beat the Green Bay Packers on Saturday night in an overtime thriller, taking control of the NFC North, while the rest of the NFC has come into focus with two weeks to play. Meanwhile, the AFC has unfinished business heading into Week 17.
That, and more, in this week’s NFL playoff picture check-in.
NFL Playoff Picture
AFC Playoff Picture: Broncos
Note: Division leaders are bolded, playoff probabilities courtesy of the NFL’s official website ; x = clinched a...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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The NFL released the Pro Bowl rosters for the 2025 season, and the Carolina Panthers have a single representative. That representative: Jaycee Horn. Horn has a career high five interceptions this season, tied for second in the NFL and one off the league lead of six, currently held by the Bears’ Kevin Byard. Opposing quarterbacks […]
From Cat Scratch Reader
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The resurgent Chicago Bears have some new faces representing them on the NFC’s Pro Bowl roster this year. Center Drew Dalman, guard Joe Thuney, and safety Kevin Byard III will represent the Bears at the Pro Bowl Games this season, with the announcement coming just three days after the Bears clinched their first playoff berth […]
From Windy City Gridiron
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Let’s hit another 2026 NFL mock draft.
As long as the Giants hold onto the top pick, I still think that someone will end up moving up for it, and they’d be wise to trade back a few spots. Plus, the Bears add a different EDGE, and the Chiefs pick up the most dangerous offensive player in the draft class .
2026 NFL Mock Draft
1. New York Jets (via NYG): QB Fernando Mendoza – Indiana
If the Giants end up with the top pick, they will almost certainly deal it. I’m sure they’d ra...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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