Bears named as one of the NFL's most-improved teams this offseason
The Chicago Bears have undergone a major facelift through the first week and a half of the NFL’s free agency period. With a surplus of salary cap space the Bears have landed premier talent at positions of desperate need. Chicago also added an established playmaker on the outside in D.J. Moore who came over in […]
The Chicago Bears have undergone a major facelift through the first week and a half of the NFL’s free agency period.
With a surplus of salary cap space the Bears have landed premier talent at positions of desperate need. Chicago also added an established playmaker on the outside in D.J. Moore who came over in a blockbuster trade with the Carolina Panthers.
When looking across the league, you are hard pressed to find a team that has upgraded its roster more than the Bears. In fact, Sports Illustrated recently released a list naming the Bears as one of its eight teams that has improved the most this offseason.
Here’s what SI’s Gilberto Manzano had to say about the Bears’ offseason thus far:
Justin Fields might have benefited the most from the Bears’ trade with the Panthers. He’ll have a top wideout in Moore, and the team is in position to add more talented players around the third-year quarterback with the handful of draft picks it acquired from the Panthers. In the past week, Chicago has added tight end Robert Tonyan, running back D’Onta Foreman and guard Nate Davis.
GM Ryan Poles also took care of coach Matt Eberflus by signing T.J. Edwards and Tremaine Edmunds, two athletic inside linebackers with coverage skills who are ideal fits in Eberflus’s defensive system. Many had issues with how much the Bears spent for two off-ball linebackers, but every team has different needs and these two mesh well with what Chicago is trying to build defensively. Suddenly the Bears no longer have one of the worst rosters in the NFL.
Not only does the Bears offense now resemble that of a competitive team, but the defense is starting to round in to form as well. But Poles’ work is far from finished. He will have 10 draft picks to continue to bolster the Bears’ roster, including four selections in the first three rounds.
This has been an exciting offseason for Bears fans as the team has checked off plenty of boxes already. While the team continues to look for supplementary players in free agency, Chicago must find some young talent through the draft in order to compete for the NFC North’s throne sooner rather than later.
