{"id":840935,"date":"2026-03-29T13:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/840935\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:56:18","slug":"bears-2026-free-agency-devin-bush-is-a-legitimate-impact-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/840935\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears 2026 Free Agency: Devin Bush is a \u2018legitimate impact player\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On her latest Making Monsters podcast, Taylor Doll is joined by Quincy Carrier, who covers the Cleveland Browns for cleveland.com. They discuss Devin Bush\u2019s resurgence and how he\u2019s turned his career around. They also discuss Jedrick Wills Jr.\u2018s injury struggles in the NFL, why he could still have room to grow, and how Ben Johnson could be good for his mindset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When the Browns signed Bush, he was coming in as a backup special teamer, but he was coached up and turned his career around. Carrier said he noticed \u201cconsistent progression\u201d during Bush\u2019s time with the Browns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAnd then this last year, he was legitimately like an impact player, right? I think he got to the point already where he was already good, and then this last year he took the leap to like he\u2019s a legitimate impact player on top of all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Both Bush and Wills were former 10th overall draft picks, and while Cleveland and their coaches were what got Bush\u2019s career back on track, maybe Chicago and the Bears\u2019 coaches are what Wills needs to get his career heading in a positive direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Give Taylor\u2019s show a listen in either of the embeds below, and give us your thoughts on Bush and Wills fitting in with the Bears in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Our 2nd City Gridiron Podcast Channel is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/2nd-city-gridiron\/id1740183213\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3AfUwxvqBNmGKEcalJmYJY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-2nd-city-gridiron-165564430\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iHeart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/podcast\/2nd-city-gridiron-4ac36\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Audacy<\/a>, and other popular podcast platforms, so be sure to hit subscribe wherever you get your audio. Our YouTube home is also called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMXAZtZvYznksYB2z5cMDjA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2nd City Gridiron<\/a>, so subscribe there for our pods and other video content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On her latest Making Monsters podcast, Taylor Doll is joined by Quincy Carrier, who covers the Cleveland Browns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,75257,2672,741,7768,2493,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-840935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-chicago-bears-analysis","12":"tag-chicago-bears-free-agency","13":"tag-chicago-bears-news","14":"tag-chicago-bears-podcasts-videos","15":"tag-chicagobears","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116312813556222583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840935","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=840935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}