What Chicago Bears must do to repeat as NFC North champions in 2026
The Chicago Bears took the NFC North by storm in 2025.
Going from worst-to-first, including beating the Green Bay Packers twice, with one victory coming in a home playoff game, and knocking off the defending Super Bowl champions along the way, the Bears’ rapid turnaround in head coach Ben Johnson’s first season at the helm was one of the top storylines across the league.
However, with some cap space headwinds and questions about the sustainability of a defense thriving off leading the league in takeaways, there are some real concerns about Chicago’s ability to repeat.
Key areas Chicago Bears must improve this offseason
Over at NFL Media, analyst Eric Edholm put together his first set of offseason power rankings, listing the Bears No. 7 overall, as the highest-ranked team from the NFC North, offering a blueprint for how to repeat in 2026, as well.
“They will need to identify ways to fortify the defense,” Edholm writes of Chicago’s offseason outlook. “And stabilize the offense for another big run in what should be a loaded NFC North once again. The foundation is in place, but there’s still more building to do. A few cuts might be necessary, and that’s assuming they can redo some contracts, but Chicago will likely have neither the cap space nor the draft ammunition to make blockbuster additions.”
If the Bears are going to take the next step, it obviously depends on Williams continuing to improve, along with his young and rising pass catchers, but potentially even more importantly, the defense finding a way to terrorize opposing quarterbacks into the kind of mistakes that came to define it this past season.
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