The Chicago Bears bested the Green Bay Packers twice in 2025. They split the season series 1-1, but Chicago used an incredible fourth quarterback comeback in the Wild Card round of the NFL Playoffs to send their oldest rivals home early. Not only that, but the Bears won the NFC North division over the second-place Packers.
Now that the off-season has started, both teams are looking at ways that they can improve their rosters ahead of 2026. Typically, the two franchises do not do business with each other due to their old bitter rivalry.
However, one NFL analysts suggests that Chicago could land a player Green Bay may no longer be interested in keeping.
Chicago Bears encouraged to trade for Green Bay Packers pass rusher Rashan Gary
Green Bay Packers defensive end Micah Parsons (1) and defensive end Rashan Gary (52) pressure Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams (18) on Sunday, December 7, 2025, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The Packers defeated the Bears 28-21.
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One of Chicago’s biggest needs this off-season is to find a high-quality pass rusher that can play opposite of Montez Sweat. Max Dible of Heavy appears to think Green Bay would be willing to help the Bears do this by trading Pro Bowl defensive end Rashan Gary to them:
“It might behoove the Bears to offer the Packers a fourth-round pick (No. 129 in 2026) or a pair of Day-3 selections in 2026 and 2027 for Gary — similar to the trade packages for defensive end Za’Darius Smith over the past few years — rather than ignore the opportunity and watch Green Bay release him for nothing.”
If the Packers were to be offered a fourth-round pick for Gary, they would undoubtedly take it. They do not have a first round pick after trading their next two first rounders to the Dallas Cowboys for Micah Parsons.
That being said, if the Bears were to make the offer, the Packers would probably ask for a higher pick as part of the unofficial “division tax.”
Additionally, it is not really within the realm of possibility that Green Bay would trade Gary to Chicago anyway.
What is more, Gary is likely going to be a cap casualty when the new league year begins next month. If the Bears really wanted Gary, they could wait and sign him for far less than the $18.5 million they would have to pay him if they traded for him.
Of course, they would have to compete with other teams in free agency. However, they could lure him to Chicago by giving him the opportunity to play against Green Bay twice a year.
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