The Bears just made life a lot harder for Green Bay.
With the November 10 trade deadline closing in, Chicago landed Jeffery Simmons, and the move drops one of the league’s best interior defensive linemen right into the middle of the Packers’ biggest problem area. Through the first part of the 2026 season, that matchup has all the makings of a nightmare for Green Bay.
Two things have stood out over the first nearly two months of the year: the Packers’ interior offensive line has been the weakest in football, and Simmons has been playing better than any interior defensive lineman around. Put those together, and the Bears have acquired exactly the kind of player the Packers struggle to handle.
Jeffery Simmons is an awesome player and also happens to line up at a position where the current #Packers is the weakest in its OL.
Not great, Bob.
- Peter Bukowski (@Peter_Bukowski) October 29, 2026
The Packers’ issues inside have already been obvious. Freddie Boston of Lombardi Ave laid out just how rough the situation has been up front, and the numbers back it up. Green Bay has had trouble running the ball, and Jordan Love has taken a beating - he’s been hit 51 times in the first seven games, which works out to at least seven hits a game on average.
That makes the timing of the Simmons move even worse for Green Bay. The Packers will have to see him again, with Christmas circled as the next meeting.
It’s not as if Green Bay has ignored the problem. The addition of Laken Tomlinson has helped stabilize the guard spot, and the team has already made several moves to bolster protection for Love, including adding Kevin Zeitler and Mekhi Becton. That urgency makes sense when the alternative is leaving Love exposed to a defense that now includes Simmons.
Even with those upgrades, the rest of the line still has to hold up. And the Packers already know the price of failing there: the whole operation can get derailed if something happens to Love.
The stakes are high for both teams, too. There may only be one more regular-season meeting left between the Packers and Bears, but each side is still chasing the same thing. Green Bay has been aggressive in its push to contend, and it knows the return of Micah Parsons could further sharpen the roster.
Still, Simmons changes the equation. Once he gets a couple of months to settle into Chicago’s defense, he could become a major problem for a Packers front that has already shown too many cracks.
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