{"id":57874,"date":"2025-07-11T21:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T21:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57874\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T21:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T21:32:15","slug":"sources-bears-extend-general-manager-ryan-poles-through-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57874\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Bears extend general manager Ryan Poles through 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cronin_courtney.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Courtney CroninJul 11, 2025, 03:51 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Courtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota Vikings before switching to the Chicago Bears in 2022. Courtney is a frequent panelist on Around the Horn and host of Best Week Ever and GameNight on ESPN Radio. She also co-hosts The Chicago Bears Podcast on ESPN 1000. She previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News as a multimedia sports journalist.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LAKE FOREST, Ill. &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"19d73366-b5a5-cca2-a176-a2c024ce0bb3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a> and general manager Ryan Poles have agreed to a three-year contract extension that runs through the 2029 season, a source told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Poles had two years remaining on the five-year contract he signed upon becoming Chicago&#8217;s general manager in 2022. He is now aligned with head coach Ben Johnson, whose contract runs through the 2029 season.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN first reported the Bears&#8217; plan to extend Poles during the 2025 offseason in January.<\/p>\n<p>Poles, 39, oversaw a substantial rebuild that coincided with the Bears earning the No. 1 pick after the 2022 and 2023 seasons, respectively. Chicago traded the draft&#8217;s top pick to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"647c27bf-ab86-550e-5b83-91c29e73e4a9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-panthers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> in March 2023 for wide receiver <a data-player-guid=\"f90765ad-da8a-9a88-8beb-568c2812636d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3915416\/dj-moore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DJ Moore<\/a> and four draft picks, which Poles used to draft quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"dd15176c-3004-333f-beaa-149216c42968\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4431611\/caleb-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Williams<\/a>, right tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4426358\/darnell-wright\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darnell Wright<\/a>, cornerback <a data-player-guid=\"8151a4a7-4689-d0b3-0665-d09187e7bed1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4426374\/tyrique-stevenson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrique Stevenson<\/a>, wide receiver <a data-player-guid=\"f78ad5c7-c991-3940-b213-79f9a8d77008\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4685278\/luther-burden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luther Burden III<\/a> and punter <a data-player-guid=\"c5a9ab31-4cfb-3f3a-bf90-a6b39c4ca3cb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4686889\/tory-taylor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tory Taylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears have gone 15-36 since Poles was hired and saw former coach Matt Eberflus fired midway through the 2024 season, which ended with a 5-12 finish during Williams&#8217; rookie year. Poles led an extensive coaching search in January that saw the Bears interview 17 candidates before landing on Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Chicago has made significant investments in the offensive line via trades for guards <a data-player-guid=\"cc4a49c2-036e-c616-afe2-52ca31d2406d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2577773\/joe-thuney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Thuney<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"3bff63f5-649a-361f-6add-8886c856f2e3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3930040\/jonah-jackson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonah Jackson<\/a> and signing center <a data-player-guid=\"b7bd3629-70fb-b242-ba8f-1aa94e1f9ee3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4242553\/drew-dalman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Dalman<\/a> in free agency. Poles also invested heavily in the defensive trenches with tackles <a data-player-guid=\"944cb546-9bc0-6532-93be-6ba6b4ae7e8a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2576492\/grady-jarrett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grady Jarrett<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"771bfde0-4a68-3751-982e-c822bc3bef1b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4432804\/shemar-turner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shemar Turner<\/a> and defensive end <a data-player-guid=\"2b19c2c2-cef0-113f-1ef6-bc6f60e47fa9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4242659\/dayo-odeyingbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dayo Odeyingbo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Poles and Johnson&#8217;s first draft together saw the Bears draft two pass-catching weapons with the team&#8217;s top two draft picks (tight end <a data-player-guid=\"678445c0-543b-31f1-b924-67545f33ebbb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4723086\/colston-loveland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colston Loveland<\/a> at No. 10 and Burden at No. 39) for the first time in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a rhythm to all the madness behind what we do and how we do it,&#8221; Johnson said in April. &#8220;And Ryan really is all the brains behind that. He set it all up and you can tell that this group, this organization has been together for a number of years now because it&#8217;s been running so smoothly. He&#8217;s consistent every single day when he comes in. I think that sometimes is under looked at times, particularly in this profession. Consistency is a huge deal and he&#8217;s just done a great job every single day laying out a plan, executing a plan and just getting to know him more.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtney CroninJul 11, 2025, 03:51 PM ET Close Courtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-57874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114836743495717431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}