The Chicago Bears made a stunning move by hiring Eric Bienemy as the team's running backs coach. Here's our grade for the decision.

As Chicago Bears coach Ben Johnson builds his staff and evaluates the roster, we look at positives, issues and questions with the current state of the offense.

The Bears made the NFL’s biggest offseason splash with Ben Johnson’s hire and have now been named the biggest winners of the 2025 coaching cycle.

Poles was hired on Jan. 25, 2022, two days before the Bears hired Matt Eberflus as head coach. Four days after Eberflus was fired on Nov. 29 with the third-worst win percentage (.304) in franchise history, questions about Poles' job security and his role in hiring the next coach were raised during a news conference.

Johnson has passed several tests already, but there are still questions about how it will all work out for the Bears' new coach.

"Our mission, starting this spring, is to win and to win now," Johnson said at his introductory news conference.

"I want this job!" Those were the first words former Lions offensive coordinator and new Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson told team chairman George McCaskey during his interview for the position,

The Chicago Bears have won 15 games under the three-year leadership of general manager Ryan Poles. While a 15-36 record might get most GM’s fired, the Bears chose to let Poles hire his second head coach this offseason (and the second head coach he’s hired without an in-person interview).

The Chicago Bears made it known quick that Ben Johnson was their guy and moved fast to make sure they landed the most prized candidate of the cycle. It was very out of character for the Bears and showed the entire NFL that the team is putting a plan in place to embrace the future and leave the past behind.

The Chicago Bears pulled out all of the stops to land Ben Johnson as their new head coach, which included making him one of the highest-paid first-time head coaches. In a new article by ESPN's Courtney Cronin,