Patrick Finley
Chicago Bears reporter
Patrick Finley covers the Chicago Bears for the Chicago Sun-Times.
Last year’s NFC runner-up emerged from free agency the way they entered it: the favorite in the North with the Packers, and breakout star quarterback Jordan Love, on their heels.
The Bears began signing undrafted free agents not long after the end of the NFL Draft on Saturday.
Everyone’s got their origin story. This is Caleb Williams’.
The Bears ended up taking five players after giving up a 2025 fourth-rounder to pick Kansas defensive end Austin Booker in the fifth round.
Taylor figures to replace Trenton Gill.
Months before Rome Odunze ever shared an airplane ride with new Bears teammate Caleb Williams, he was forced into a two-day road trip.
Caleb Williams is No.1 in more ways than, well, one.
Hours after Williams said he asked the Bears for reasons why the team had a well-worn history of quarterback struggles, GM Ryan Poles said that “we’ve got to stop going back all the time.”
McCarthy, who went to Nazareth Academy in La Grange Park before starring at Michigan, will now play for the Bears’ rivals in Minnesota.