The Chicago Bears' defense should be a formidable unit in 2025 as long as they can answer this pressing question.

In 2022, the Bears defense ranked second to last in the NFL against the rush. Teams ran up and down the field against a porous Bears defense throughout an abysmal 3-14 campaign. So Bears general ...

Chargers on Sunday Night Football When Chicago Bears defensive tackle Justin Jones took his first step upfield on first down in the third quarter Sunday, he saw the Las Vegas Raiders had isolated ...

Ben Johnson made one of the first big moves of his Chicago Bears coaching tenure this week when he hired former Oakland Raiders and New Orleans Saints head coach Dennis Allen to be his defensive ...

Advertisement Part of the “it’s only three games, but it’s been really bad” dissection of the Bears has to include the defensive line and linebackers, one of the few groups on the team ...

When Bears defensive coordinator Dennis Allen surveyed the talent on his defense, he focused attention on the line, where there is an obvious need for help. He definitely came away from his first ...

The Bears know they must bolster the trenches on both sides of the ball. They weren’t physical enough on offense or defense to match up in the rugged NFC North division in 2024. The offensive ...

Nic Antaya/Getty Share After playing 139 career NFL games, receiver Keenan Allen knows a good defense when he sees one. This week at Bears mandatory minicamp, he’s seen one. “They look like a ...

The Bears were off to a solid start but cratered in the second half of the season after trading linebacker Roquan Smith and defensive end Robert Quinn. The Bears’ holdover defensive linemen all ...

The other is how his defense played poorly in the second half of this season. The only offense they shut down was the Bears, and that was no accomplishment. More importantly to the Bears ...

the Bears front office, and the McCaskey family for entrusting me with this responsibility." The move to bring in Washington to lead a talented defense was needed. During the 2023 season ...

For a moment Sunday against the Browns, Jackson and the Bears were there again — an attacking defense dominating the line of scrimmage, harassing a quarterback, taking the ball away, scoring ...