{"id":994746,"date":"2026-08-11T17:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/994746\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:02:26","slug":"chicago-bears-release-first-unofficial-depth-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/994746\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears Release First Unofficial Depth Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With a preseason football game scheduled in five days, the Chicago Bears Communications team released the first unofficial depth chart of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Now, before you run down and look at the first, second, and third strings, re-read that opening sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s put together by the Bears\u2019 communications team, so the coaches were not consulted. Hence the \u201cunofficial\u201d designation. Just like we shouldn\u2019t get worked up over practice reps \u2014 we talking \u2018bout practice \u2014 we shouldn\u2019t get worked up over a preseason depth chart compiled by some Bears staffer giving his best guess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Also, the depth charts list injured players who have practiced, but not anyone on the PUP list, since they haven\u2019t been on the field yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I\u2019ll share the depth chart below, with screenshots courtesy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobears.com\/team\/depth-chart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">team site<\/a>, because the one circulating on social media spelled the Bears\u2019 first-round draft pick\u2019s name wrong (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wiltfongjr\/status\/2087204437945122987\" rel=\"nofollow\">smh<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><strong>Do you guys have any other takeaways from the unofficial death chart?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a preseason football game scheduled in five days, the Chicago Bears Communications team released the first unofficial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":994747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,43645,5386,1818],"class_list":["post-994746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears-depth-chart","tag-il","tag-illinois"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117077957011746692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994746","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=994746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}