2025 Chicago Bears season

2025 Chicago Bears season
2025 Chicago Bears season
Owner	TBD
General manager	Ryan Poles
Head coach	Ben Johnson
Home field	Soldier Field
	← 2024; Bears seasons; 2026 →;

The 2025 season will be the Chicago Bears' 106th in the National Football League (NFL), their fourth under the leadership of general manager Ryan Poles and the first under head coach Ben Johnson. The Bears will attempt to improve on their 5–12 record from 2024, make the playoffs after a four-year absence, and end their six-year NFC North title drought. This will be their first year without Virginia Halas McCaskey as the owner as she passed away on February 6, 2025 at the age of 102.^[1]

Draft

2025 Chicago Bears Draft
Round	Selection	Player	Notes
1	10
2	39		From Carolina
2	41
3	72
4	TBD	Traded to the Buffalo Bills
5	TBD
6	TBD
	TBD	Traded to the Seattle Seahawks	From Steelers
	TBD	Traded to the Cleveland Browns	From Dolphins
7	TBD	Traded to the Miami Dolphins
	TBD		From Browns
	TBD		From Bengals

Notes

Exact numbers of the selections from rounds 4–7 will be determined when compensatory selections are awarded at the NFL's annual spring owners' meetings.

Staff

Head Coach

On November 29, 2024, the Bears fired head coach Matt Eberflus after the team was 4–8 and in the midst of a 6-game losing streak. It was the first time in franchise history the Bears fired their head coach in the middle of the season.^[2] The Bears promoted offensive coordinator Thomas Brown as interim head coach where the team finished their last five games at 1–4 and finishing the year at 5–12. On January 21, 2025, the Bears hired Ben Johnson as their 18th head coach.^[3] Johnson had previously been with the Miami Dolphins from 2012–2018 working up the ranks from offensive assistant, assistant quarterbacks coach, tight ends coach, assistant wide receivers coach, and wide receivers coach before he was hired by the Detroit Lions in 2019 as a offensive quality control coach before moving up to tight ends coach and passing game coordinator in 2020 and 2021 before he was promoted as offensive coordinator in 2022 under head coach Dan Campbell where he would be for the next 3 seasons making the Lions one of the best offenses in the league as they ranked in top 5 in scoring in all of the 3 seasons with ranks of 5th in 2022, 5th in 2023, and 1st in 2024 where they scored 564 points which was 4th most in NFL history and a franchise record.

**Chicago Bears staff**
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	Front office Chairman – George McCaskey President/CEO – Kevin Warren General manager – Ryan Poles Assistant general manager – Ian Cunningham Senior director of player personnel – Jeff King Director of player personnel – Trey Koziol Director of college scouting – Breck Ackley Director of pro scouting – DJ Hord Director of football administration – Matt Feinstein Head coaches Head coach – Ben Johnson Assistant head coach/wide receivers – Antwaan Randle El Offensive coaches Offensive coordinator – Declan Doyle Passing game coordinator – Press Taylor Quarterbacks – J. T. Barrett Running backs – Eric Bieniemy Tight ends – Jim Dray Offensive line – Dan Roushar Assistant offensive line – Kyle DeVan Offensive assistant (quarterbacks/wide receivers) – Robbie Picazo Offensive quality control – Zach Cable			Defensive coaches Defensive coordinator – Dennis Allen Defensive line – Jeremy Garrett Linebackers – Richard Smith Defensive backs/defensive pass game coordinator – Al Harris Assistant defensive backs/nickels – Cannon Matthews Senior defensive assistant – Bill Johnson Defensive quality control – Kevin Koch Defensive quality control – Kenny Norton III Special teams coaches Special teams coordinator – Richard Hightower Coaching administration Director of research and analysis – Harrison Freid Coaching administration manager – Chavis Cook Strength and conditioning Head strength and conditioning – Vacant Assistant strength and conditioning – Noble Landry Assistant strength and conditioning – Pierre Ngo → Coaching staff → Front office → More NFL staffs

Current roster

**Chicago Bears roster**
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Quarterbacks (QB) 17 Tyson Bagent 18 Caleb Williams Running backs (RB) 23 Roschon Johnson 4 D'Andre Swift 33 Ian Wheeler Wide receivers (WR) 2 D. J. Moore 15 Rome Odunze 10 Tyler Scott Tight ends (TE) 14 Gerald Everett 85 Cole Kmet		Offensive linemen (OL) 72 Kiran Amegadjie RT 71 Ryan Bates C 70 Braxton Jones LT -- Jordan McFadden G 58 Darnell Wright RT Defensive linemen (DL) 97 Andrew Billings DT 94 Austin Booker DE 99 Gervon Dexter DT 96 Zacch Pickens DT 90 Dominique Robinson DE 98 Montez Sweat DE 95 DeMarcus Walker DE		Linebackers (LB) -- Swayze Bozeman MLB 49 Tremaine Edmunds MLB 53 T. J. Edwards OLB 44 Noah Sewell OLB Defensive backs (DB) 9 Jaquan Brisker SS 31 Kevin Byard FS 6 Kyler Gordon CB 22 Elijah Hicks SS 1 Jaylon Johnson CB 36 Jonathan Owens SS 32 Terell Smith CB 29 Tyrique Stevenson CB Special teams 8 Cairo Santos K 19 Tory Taylor P		Reserve -- Maurice Alexander WR (Futures) 62 Theo Benedet RT (Futures) -- Alex Cook FS (Futures) 63 Chris Glaser G (Futures) 82 John Jackson WR (Futures) 50 Carl Jones Jr. OLB (Futures) 59 Jamree Kromah DE (Futures) -- Joshua Miles LT (Futures) -- Jordan Murray TE (Futures) 16 Austin Reed QB (Futures) 67 Ricky Stromberg C (Futures) 83 Samori Toure WR (Futures) 86 Joel Wilson TE (Futures) Impending free agents (FA) 13 Keenan Allen WR 75 Larry Borom LT 88 Stephen Carlson TE 11 DeAndre Carter WR 24 Adrian Colbert FS 93 Byron Cowart DT 73 Jake Curhan RT 46 Scott Daly LS 25 Darrynton Evans RB 20 Travis Homer RB 76 Teven Jenkins G 80 Collin Johnson WR 84 Marcedes Lewis TE 55 Jacob Martin DE 30 Tarvarius Moore FS 45 Amen Ogbongbemiga OLB 79 Matt Pryor G 48 Patrick Scales LS 65 Coleman Shelton C 52 Darrell Taylor DE 83 Nsimba Webster WR Restricted free agents (RFA) 39 Josh Blackwell CB 21 Jaylon Jones CB 68 Doug Kramer Jr. C 57 Jack Sanborn MLB 91 Chris Williams DT Exclusive-rights free agents (ERFA) 38 Douglas Coleman III SS 64 Jonathan Ford DT 92 Daniel Hardy DE 60 Bill Murray G 38 Ameer Speed CB As of February 15, 2025. Rookies in italics. 37 active, 12 reserve, 31 free agent(s) Roster Depth chart Transactions

Preseason

The Bears' preseason opponents and schedule will be announced in May, in conjunction with the release of the regular season schedule.

Regular season

2025 opponents

Listed below are the Bears' opponents for 2025. Exact dates and times will be announced in May.^[4]

Category	Home	Away
Division opponents (NFC North)	Detroit Lions Green Bay Packers Minnesota Vikings
Conference opponents (NFC East)	Dallas Cowboys New York Giants	Philadelphia Eagles Washington Commanders
Conference opponents (based on 2024 division placement)	New Orleans Saints	San Francisco 49ers
Interconference opponents (AFC North)	Cleveland Browns Pittsburgh Steelers	Baltimore Ravens Cincinnati Bengals
Interconference opponent (based on 2024 division placement)	—	Las Vegas Raiders

References

^ Pierson, Don (February 6, 2025). "Virginia McCaskey, the principal owner of the Chicago Bears and George Halas' daughter, dies at 102". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on February 7, 2025. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
^ "Bears relieve Eberflus of duties, elevate Brown". chicagobears.com. November 29, 2024. Retrieved November 29, 2024.
^ "Bears hire Ben Johnson as head coach". Chicago Bears. January 21, 2025. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
^ "2025 Opponents Determined". NFL Football Operations. January 6, 2025. Retrieved January 6, 2025.

External links

Official website

[1] Pierson, Don (February 6, 2025). "Virginia McCaskey, the principal owner of the Chicago Bears and George Halas' daughter, dies at 102". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on February 7, 2025. Retrieved February 6, 2025.

[2] "Bears relieve Eberflus of duties, elevate Brown". chicagobears.com. November 29, 2024. Retrieved November 29, 2024.

[3] "Bears hire Ben Johnson as head coach". Chicago Bears. January 21, 2025. Retrieved January 21, 2025.

[4] "2025 Opponents Determined". NFL Football Operations. January 6, 2025. Retrieved January 6, 2025.

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