{"id":330217,"date":"2025-08-31T02:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/330217\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T02:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:55:11","slug":"bears-lt-situation-still-unsettled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/330217\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears’ LT Situation Still Unsettled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darnell Wright<\/a>\u00a0is set to spend his third straight season as the Bears\u2019 starting right tackle. A central aspect of Chicago\u2019s offseason<\/a> was a complete renovation along the interior of the offensive line, with guards\u00a0Joe Thuney<\/a> and\u00a0Jonah Jackson<\/a> being acquired via trade and center\u00a0Drew Dalman<\/a>\u00a0arriving in free agency. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Those moves should help\u00a0Caleb Williams<\/a>\u00a0avoid taking as many sacks in 2025 as he did during his rookie season. Crucially, though, Chicago\u2019s left tackle spot has been a question mark throughout the offseason. New head coach\u00a0Ben Johnson\u00a0has overseen an open competition<\/a> through training camp and the preseason. With the team\u2019s exhibition games in the books, no standout option has emerged.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re going to have a starter Week 1, and we\u2019ll go from there,\u201d\u00a0Johnson said (via ESPN\u2019s Courtney Cronin<\/a>).\u00a0\u201cI said it a few weeks ago \u2013 we feel good about the guys we have in that room. Someone\u2019s gonna take the bull by the horns and is going to completely take over. But we\u2019re not afraid to make a change if the performance isn\u2019t where it needs to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Incumbent\u00a0Braxton Jones<\/a> was fully cleared late last month after ankle surgery. That has allowed the pending 2026 free agent to work with the starters in training camp, but he has not done enough for Johnson to declare him the winner of the competition. Second-round rookie\u00a0Ozzy Trapilo<\/a> has had opportunities on the blindside as well as right tackle this summer. The same is also true of<\/a> 2024 undrafted free agent Theo Benedet<\/a>,\u00a0who did not see any regular season game time last season.<\/p>\n

The other player who has represented an option (albeit never the top one) in the left tackle contest is Kiran Amegadjie<\/a>.\u00a0Drafted in the third round last year, the Yale product made six appearances and one start as a rookie. Amegadjie could see time at left tackle in 2025, but general manager\u00a0Ryan Poles\u00a0said this week (via Scott Bair of the Marquee Sports Network<\/a>) he will begin working at guard as well.<\/p>\n

As such, Jones remains the likeliest candidate to start in Week 1. The 26-year-old has started each of his 40 games to date, but 11 missed contests across the past two seasons have proven to be an issue. A healthy slate in 2025 would be critical in determining Jones\u2019 market value next spring. Based on Johnson\u2019s comments, though, it is still unclear if Jones or any one other player will receive the left tackle nod throughout the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darnell Wright\u00a0is set to spend his third straight season as the Bears\u2019 starting right tackle. A central aspect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,1706,692,391,2493,7,7398,6,681,42677],"class_list":{"0":"post-330217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-braxton-jones","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-chicagobears","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-kiran-amegadjie","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-ozzy-trapilo","17":"tag-theo-benedet"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115121129138718983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}