The Bear’s Den, June 20, 2025

Coaches and fans eyes on draft surprise Ruben Hippolite following impressive offseason

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Why Ruben Hyppolite II might be the Bears rookie most likely to start Week 1 – Chicago Sun-Times – Head coach Ben Johnson singled out Hyppolite at the end of mandatory minicamp this month, saying the Bears saw the most improvement from him among all their players.

Bears’ plight viewed as mission impossible despite improvement – SI – One analyst’s look at where the Bears stand coming into training camp determines they’ll eventually be in a very familiar place without an extremely fast start. Ken’s Note: Every party has a pooper, that’s why we invited Matt Verderame. Yeah, I’ve never heard of this dude either.

Bears Stars Jaylon Johnson and Joe Thuney Make CBS Top 100 NFL Players List – BN – A pair of Chicago Bears standouts make the list of Top 100 NFL players that recently dropped from CBS Sports.

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Shedeur Sanders: “I made some wrong choices personally” – NBC Sports
– Sanders speaks, after a pair of speeding tickets.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ON WINDY CITY GRIDIRON

The Athletic’s Robert Mays talks Chicago Bears – Windy City Gridiron – We have can’t miss show as Robert Mays joins to talk Bears!

Two stats that show the Ben Johnson effect the Bears are hoping for – Windy City Gridiron – The Chicago Bears had one of the worst offenses in the league last season, going from Shane Waldron to Thomas Brown to Chris Beatty as offensive coordinators during one of the most dysfunctional…

2026 Chicago Bears Salary Cap Look Ahead: Five Cut Candidates – Windy City Gridiron – With the bulk of the 2025 NFL offseason in the rearview mirror and training camp still a month away from kicking off, we’ll take a look ahead into the future to see who could be on the chopping block next offseason.

Will Caleb Williams break the Bears’ single-season passing records? – Windy City Gridiron – A few of our guys are running through a pre-training camp roundtable addressing some topics about the Bears.

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