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LIESER: 10-7. In a vacuum, that record and a wild-card berth are far from thrilling. But managing a decent season with Justin Fields either red-shirting or learning rookie lessons would be a positive. They’ll need a few teams [like the Steelers] to be worse than they’re widely projected, but there are enough winnable games for the Bears to get to the playoffs even if they can’t beat the Packers, Buccaneers or Rams. After they get past the opener in Los Angeles, there’s a soft spot where they can get out to a strong start. POTASH: 9-8. The Bears have a tough road schedule on paper and ...

Happy NFL schedule rollout day! The league is planning to share its 2021 league schedule tonight. But as is tradition, dates will leak throughout the day. And because we can’t help ourselves, we’ll share them as they hit the wire. BEARS AT RAMS, WEEK 1 It’s happening: The Bears begin the 2021 season under the lights in PRIME TIME against the Rams.https://t.co/Z8EhP1ca0o All my rowdy friends are here for the Sunday Night Football kickoff party. It’s a fitting lid-lifter, as the Rams’ So-Fi Stadium will play host to this upcoming Super Bowl in February. And NBC will televise the game....

I’ll admit I was getting worried when the Bears had arrived to the sixth round without taking a receiver. It’s not that I didn’t like their first four picks. Justin Fields and Teven Jenkins were gimmes. Larry Borom was a sensible selection given the need to add depth and the player’s prospect pedigree. Even Justin Herbert made sense on some level. But still … the Bears had a need at receiver that hadn’t been addressed. So it was good to see them do it in Round 6. And pretty neat that Newsome was their guy. Newsome checks boxes for Matt Nagy’s offense. His game speed looks faster...

The Chicago Bears’ money crunch claims another cap casualty. And once again, it’s a productive starter: The #Bears will be releasing LT Charles Leno, source said, their starter the last seven seasons. A surprise move. Chicago drafted OK St’s Teven Jenkins in the second round and plans to play him on the left side. Leno now available for LT-needy teams. NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport tweets the Bears are set to release left tackle Charles Leno Jr., which is a surprise on some levels … and on some other levels, not so much. Leno has been Chicago’s primary starter since 2015 and hasn...

Subscribe This afternoon will be the calm before the storm this evening: mostly cloudy and a high around 74 degrees. Tonight there will be thunderstorms before 1 a.m. with a low near 52. Tomorrow there’s a chance for more storms in the morning with a high around 58. Top story Janice Jackson is leaving her post as chief executive of Chicago Public Schools when her contract expires at the end of June, she announced today. Jackson’s departure comes at a critical juncture for the nation’s third-largest school system — not only as it begins its recovery from an unprecedented disruption to...