The Chicago Bears put together a strong 2025 NFL offseason. After missing the playoffs in 2024, the Bears made a huge move to begin the offseason. They replaced Matt Eberflus with former Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson as their new head coach.

At some point during the offseason, coach Ben Johnson said, almost every single Bears player has walked into a coordinator’s office — or that of the new head coach — and said they wanted to be coached with intensity.

The 2023 season didn't yield a breakout star at quarterback, which was probably more about the down 2022 draft class of quarterbacks than anything else. In 2024, we saw one of the most shocking Year 2 eruptions in recent memory,