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One highlight of last weekend’s Bears100 Celebration was hearing former safety Mike Brown relive one of the most remarkable feats in franchise history. Brown remains the only NFL player to ever return interceptions for touchdowns in overtime in back-to-back games. Both TDs—which came on...

Bears Pro Bowl guard Kyle Long, in partnership with First Book, recently sent thousands of Chicago kids in need home with brand-new books as part of the Chris Long Foundation’s “First Quarter for Literacy” campaign. The initiative is designed to get books to children in underserved...

“David Montgomery breaks a ton of tackles,” general manager Ryan Pace said after the draft. “There are guys bouncing off him left and right. A lot of guys can break tackles, but then they’ll lose their balance. He has the ability to break tackles and keep his feet continue for positive yards.”...

According to Pro Football Focus, Montgomery led the nation in forced missed tackles each of the past two years in college with 109 in 2017 and 100 in 2018. During a recent discussion with Montgomery, Bears assistant director of player personnel Champ Kelly was surprised to hear the 5-10...

It was actually a win for everyone in a Bears uniform. “It always feels good to have a little incentive on certain things in practice,” said receiver Allen Robinson II. “Being able to not run today was definitely good.” In Wednesday’s practice inside the Walter Payton Center, Pineiro and...

(2) Trubisky enjoyed attending the Bears100 Celebration Weekend, especially getting a chance to interact with some of the franchise’s former stars. “It was awesome just to spend a lot of time with all those legends and have them all come back,” Trubisky said. “We had a really good showing.”...

“As soon as we got to Bourbonnais, we start loosely talking about it,” Lucas said. “I think we knew some stuff from a financial perspective that Oakland was going through, where it may be realistic they could trade this guy. But even at that point, this was late July, I think all of us were...

I haven’t heard about speedy receiver Marvin Hall, who signed with the Bears as a free agent earlier this offseason. How has he looked in practice? Warren B. Wilmette, Illinois Marvin Hall took advantage of some expanded reps in Wednesday’s practice inside the Walter Payton Center and made...

The Bears have announced that five coaches will join head coach Matt Nagy’s staff for this week’s mandatory minicamp as part of the NFL’s Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship, which is in its 32nd year. The program’s objective is to use NFL clubs’ camps to give coaches opportunities to...

Creating a legacy: After current Bears players interacted with Hall of Famers and other former greats at the Bears100 Celebration Weekend, Nagy had a message for his team Tuesday. “They have the ability to create our own legacy,” Nagy said. “And it’s not about being better than any other team...

Fry converted all 14 field goals he attempted with the Apollos, with a long of 44 yards. Fry had a stellar career at South Carolina, arriving as a walk-on and leaving as the school’s all-time leading scorer with 359 points. He connected on 66-of-88 field-goal attempts (75 percent) and...

More than 40 former Bears players gathered at The Club at Strawberry Creek in Kenosha, Wis., Monday for the franchise’s annual alumni golf outing. The group included 10 members of the 1985 Super Bowl XX championship team: Tom Andrews, Jimbo Covert, Willie Gault, Dan Hampton, Jay Hilgenberg...

One of the highlights for Mack was spending about 30 minutes speaking to Hall of Fame defensive end Richard Dent, the Super Bowl XX MVP and the Bears’ all-time leading sacker. “It was cool, just chatting about the game,” Mack said. “You can tell he still loves the game and he wanted to teach...

“This town has always been a Bear town,” McMahon said. “It’s always going to be a Bear town. This is a hard-working town and these fans appreciate hard-working players. They know who plays hard and who doesn’t. If you play hard for Chicago, they’ll love you. And if you play hard and win, they’ll...

Bears running backs, it seems, know how to make an entrance. In Forte’s first game, September 17, 2008 against Indianapolis, he ran for 123 yards and scored on a 50-yard touchdown. Later that year, Forte broke Sayers’ team record for most yards from scrimmage in a season. Howard, a fifth-round...

“These days here for the centennial celebration, I’m still trying to find words for what they’ve meant to me and I hope to all of you,” Mrs. McCaskey told an enthusiastic crowd. “It has made me even more grateful for what my life has been and the position that I’m in. There are so many...

Pace helped orchestrate the Bears’ worst-to-first turnaround with a series of bold and impactful moves. He hired Nagy, traded for All-Pro outside linebacker Khalil Mack, matched a contract offer cornerback Kyle Fuller received from the Packers, completely revamped the receiving corps and drafted...

“I was just like a little kid back there in that room when we got here on Friday night,” coach Matt Nagy said while participating in a “Leading the Bears” panel discussion Sunday with general manager Ryan Pace and president/CEO Ted Phillips. “Just to be able to see the legacy of what these...

During his panel with McMahon, Trubisky told a story about a pre-draft dinner he had with general manager Ryan Pace in North Carolina in 2017. The Bears wanted to keep their interest in Trubisky a secret, so the quarterback made the restaurant reservation under the name “James McMahon” to honor...

Butkus was selected by the Bears with the third pick in the 1965 NFL Draft, one spot ahead of longtime teammate and fellow Hall of Famer Gale Sayers. The middle linebacker was also chosen in the first round of the AFL Draft by the Denver Broncos. But he opted to sign with his hometown team and...