After the Bears’ embarrassing loss to the Green Bay Packers, the conversation naturally starts drifting forward. Chicago is headed to Atlanta in Week 6, but there’s also a more distant checkpoint worth monitoring: the club’s 2027 free agent group, where a few names are beginning to look awfully fragile for Ryan Poles.
Tyrique Stevenson is one of the clearest examples. He did not have a disastrous day against Green Bay in terms of coverage, giving up just one catch on two targets and no touchdown.
The issue, though, is that the good stretch didn’t last long because Stevenson left with a hamstring injury. It comes on the heels of a rough Week 5 against the Jets, when he allowed five receptions and a deep touchdown.
Through the season, he has allowed an opposing quarterback rating of 140.7, according to PFF, which is not the kind of number that stabilizes a contract-year case.
Roschon Johnson’s situation looks even bleaker. With Kyle Monangai unavailable, the Bears needed Johnson to bring something next to D’Andre Swift, and he simply didn’t.
Against Green Bay, he looked slow getting to his spots, seemed to miss what was happening in front of him, and never gave the offense a spark. He wasn’t helping the backfield; he was dragging it down.
That’s the kind of showing that pushes a player closer to the exit than the extension table.
Garrett Bradbury has been the steady weak point up front for most of the season, and Week 6 added another blemish. He had gone through the first five weeks without allowing a sack, but that changed against Green Bay when he was charged with a sack allowed and two pressures.
Bears fans are watching Logan Jones closely, even if no one knows how far along the rookie is after spending Year 1 on the sideline. Bradbury’s profile hasn’t done much to calm those concerns.
PFF has him at a 50.9 pass-blocking grade and a 57.3 run-blocking grade on the year.
Then there’s Clark Phillips III, whose role has become impossible to ignore for the wrong reasons. He again played zero defensive snaps, continuing a pattern that raises obvious questions about why he’s still being buried on the sideline.
The Bears traded Gervon Dexter Sr. to the Falcons for a pick and Phillips, but this staff doesn’t seem to be using him at all. In a secondary that has already had its share of problems, that decision stands out - and not in a good way.
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