LAKE FOREST — Cole Kmet did everything for the Chicago Bears offense last season. The former Notre Dame tight end led the team in receiving yards (544) and touchdowns (7). He also played in every game and missed only 63 offensive snaps in 2022. His seven touchdowns were tied for the third-most by a tight end with New Orleans’ Juwan…
With three weeks of OTAs in the books, here are my three biggest takeaways from what we’ve seen and heard: The Justin Fields-D.J. Moore chemistry is real. There’s a world in which Fields could still be struggling, with Moore slowly working his way into a new offense on a new team. That’s not the world we’ve witnessed the last three…...
As I slowly increase the frequency of my Bears Things newsletter, I’m happy to address topics that come from Diehards via the CHGO Discord Lounge. Last week, moore2score asked about my offseason process and what I focus on during these slower summer weeks. To be honest, the most important thing I focus on is recharging my batteries. From the first…...
When it comes to showing up for voluntary portions of the NFL offseason program, the reality is that not all situations are equal. When Robert Quinn didn’t show up to OTAs last year — or even mandatory veteran minicamp for that matter — no one really blinked an eye. Quinn was a veteran player with one job: go get the…...
LAKE FOREST — Matt Eberflus spoke to the media following the team’s OTA practice on Wednesday. He started off by sharing that the team had a special guest in attendance. Cooper Roberts, a young boy who was shot in the back during the Highland Park shooting on the Fourth of July last year, and members of his family. Roberts got the…
As the Bears get back on the field this morning for OTAs, I thought I’d take the time to address a topic I’ve been asked about a lot in the last week: the new fair catch rule on kickoffs. Last week at the spring meetings in Minneapolis, NFL owners voted to approve fair catches on kickoffs on a one-year trial…...
It’s Thursday, so let’s talk about Thursday Night Football … NFL owners had themselves a hell of a week at the spring league meeting in Minneapolis, passing two items on a one-year trial-basis despite extreme opposition. One of those items now allows the flexing of some Thursday night games. The other rule change now allows teams to fair catch kickoffs…...
It’s hard to miss Tremaine Edmunds. Even if he is nearly 100 yards away in the opposite end zone, the 6-foot-5, 250-pound linebacker clearly stands out. But he nearly turned invisible on a play in the red zone during the Chicago Bears’ second OTA practice on Tuesday. Quarterback PJ Walker was trying to lead his unit to a scoring drive…