Data is based on the 2025 regular season followed by the rank.<\/p>\n
CHICAGO<\/p>\n
2025 finish: 11-6 (division champs)<\/p>\n
2026 draft picks: Round 1 (25), Round 2 (57), Round 2 (60), Round 3 (89), Round 4 (129), Round 7 (239), Round 7 (241)<\/p>\n
Most impactful 2025 pick: Chicago used the No. 10 overall pick on tight end Colston Loveland and he had an instant impact in head coach Ben Johnson’s offense, catching 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and six touchdowns. Loveland had 12 receptions for 193 yards in two playoff games for the Bears.<\/p>\n
Top 3 draft needs: Edge rusher, safety, center<\/p>\n
Twentyman’s take: The Bears haven’t used a first-round pick on defense since 2018. They still need to find an edge rusher opposite Montez Sweat and could stand to add to the safety position after losing Kevin Byard III and Jaquan Brisker in free agency. Adding upfront along the offensive line at either center or tackle (or both) makes a lot of sense too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Data is based on the 2025 regular season followed by the rank. CHICAGO 2025 finish: 11-6 (division champs)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2493,7,416,5515,415,6,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-870570","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-chicagobears","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","14":"tag-news-road-to-the-draft-yoy","15":"tag-news-twentyman","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-tate-ratledge"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116436777782869656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870570","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=870570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}