Chicago Bears linked to 61.5-sack All-Pro to bolster pass rush

Just about everyone assumed the Chicago Bears would add an impactful pass rusher this offseason considering the team totaled just 35 sacks in 2025, but instead, the Bears have stood pat at the position.

Chicago had an opportunity to trade for Maxx Crosby, but sat on the sidelines. It didn’t sign an edge rusher in free agency. It didn’t address the pass rush in the NFL Draft, either.

Instead, the Bears are opting to roll with their current trio of Montez Sweat, Austin Booker and Dayo Odeyingbo on the edge, and while Sweat racked up 10 sacks last season, the latter two players are major question marks heading into 2026.

Booker showed promise logging 4.5 sacks in 10 games last year, but he is vastly unproven. Then there is Odeyingbo, who managed all of one sack in eight contests during his debut campaign in Chicago before tearing his Achilles midway through 2025.

The Bears could definitely use another veteran pass rusher in their employ, and there are still some notable names left on the open market. ESPN’s Bill Barnwell zeroed in on a couple of names, including one relatively new one: Haason Reddick.

Chicago Bears urged to sign Haason Reddick

Jadeveon Clowney, Cameron Jordan and Joey Bosa have been the pass rushers most commonly linked to Chicago in the the latter stages of the offseason, but we haven’t really heard much about Reddick.

Perhaps that’s because Reddick accumulated just 3.5 sacks in 23 games between 2024 and 2025 and has looked absolutely cooked ever since sitting out the first half of the former campaign during his lone year with the New York Jets. He performed slightly better with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last season, but still wasn’t great.

Nevertheless, Reddick posted four straight double-digit sack showings between 2020 and 2023, earning back-to-back Pro Bowl appearances the two latter campaigns. He also notched Second-Team All-Pro honors in 2022 when he racked up 49 tackles, 16 sacks and five forced fumbles.

Overall, the 31-year-old has recorded 61.5 sacks since entering the league in 2017 and was also a late bloomer, having tallied only 7.5 sacks his first three seasons.

Reddick is not going to be anyone’s favorite option at this stage, but he would certainly come cheap, and for a Bears squad that has just $11.2 million in cap room right now, he seems like a sensible addition. And who knows? Perhaps a trip to Chicago is would rejuvenate the Temple product.

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