NFL world is raving about Ben Johnson, Chicago Bears

There are a few events on the NFL calendar that the entire league descends on one place, and the Chicago Bears are the talk of the town this week.

As some of the league’s general managers, coaches, top executives, and scouts are in Mobile, Ala. for the Senior Bowl, head coach Ben Johnson and the Bears have the NFL’s power brokers buzzing.

Chicago Bears’ 2025 season turning heads across the NFL

After orchestrating a worst-to-first turnaround in the NFC North, and winning a playoff game, the Bears’ and Chicago’s front office personnel aren’t necessarily under the microscope during Senior Bowl week with teams trying to figure out what direction they’ll take at the top of the NFL Draft with some of the top prospects, but the town is apparently abuzz with Bears praise.

According to Chicago Tribune Bears insider Brad Biggs, folks around the league were wildly impressed by Johnson and Chicago’s 2025 campaign.

“Walking around town since Monday,” Biggs said, during an appearance on 670 The Score. “You sort of reconnect with people you haven’t seen since the Combine or people you haven’t seen in a longer stretch than that, or familiar face that maybe worked for the Bears 15 years ago, or even longer.

“I had people going out of their way, when we were in passing to stop and say ‘unbelievable what they did this season,’ or ‘how different was that?’ and ‘look at the difference a coach can make,’ that as kind of the overriding theme.”

Johnson enters NFL Honors as a Coach of The Year finalist, after the Bears capped the 2025 season as the No. 2 seed, and now with a young and ascending roster built around a young quarterback originally chosen No. 1 overall in the NFL Draft, the future is brighter in Chicago than it has been in years.

The rest of the league is taking notice. Some folks around the NFL are eager to see how Johnson and Co. answer some major questions about their sustainability as contenders for years to come.

“Supreme respect for [Ben Johnson] and the job they did as a staff,” Biggs said. “Nobody gave off a ‘flash-in-the-pan’ vibe, but, certainly probably have a lot more questions about their ability to recreate that level of success than your core listeners have.

“Can they stay healthy? What will it look like when they’re playing a first-place schedule, what’s the quarterback going to look like? Where are the pieces on defense? How will they fare in close games next year?”

.@BradBiggs is hearing so much respect for Ben Johnson’s Bears at the Senior Bowl down in Mobile, Alabama.

“I had people going out of their way, when we were in passing to say, ‘unbelievable what they did this season.’” pic.twitter.com/MB03tXJvNv

— 670 The Score (@thescorechicago) January 29, 2026

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