The 2025 NFL trade deadline came and went without any major fireworks for the Chicago Bears, and that’s exactly why they earn a solid B-. While fans hoped for splashier moves, the front office played it smart, avoiding the urge to overpay for short-term fixes in a season that’s still very much alive.
Yes, Chicago did make one move — acquiring edge rusher Joe Tryon-Shoyinka from the Cleveland Browns. Let’s be honest: this isn’t a game-changing addition. Tryon-Shoyinka is more of a rotational piece than a solution, but with the Bears thin at edge rusher, they needed another body. He provides depth, and at this point, that’s all they were looking for.
Don’t look at Tyron-Shoyinka as a replacement for Dayo Odeyingbo. That’s Austin Booker, who played really well last week. This is a replacement for Dominique Robinson.
The Bears resisted going all in, and that deserves praise. Would adding another star player have helped in the short term? Probably. But giving up premium draft capital with a couple long-term needs still looming would’ve been a mistake. Chicago’s front office likely knows they aren’t one piece away from a Super Bowl, and they’re wisely keeping their options open for the offseason. Building through the draft is always the best route unless you believe you’re one player away.
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For now, the Bears will ride with Montez Sweat and Austin Booker on the edge. Help could be coming soon, too — if Kyler Gordon and Jaylon Johnson return from injury, it’ll give the defense a major boost down the stretch. Taking a look into free agent cornerback Asante Samuel Jr. would be interesting as well. But with the NFC North still in reach, this was a calculated decision.
No panic. No overpaying. Just disciplined team-building — and that’s worth a B- in my book.
Collaborated decision led by B Johnson and D Allen understanding they have several young players in the development process that they need true evaluations on in real game time environments. If Jermaine Johnson could have been traded for with a 5th or possibly even a 4th, I believe he would in Bears uni now, but D Allen and B Johnson know the value of the fit, production, team health, needs and direction well enough to tell R Poles a hard pass on surrendering a 1,2,or even a 3rd pick on a 4th or 5th round gamble.
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I am 99% sure that the decision to not make a major move, given the trade opportunities that were out there, was a collaborative decision by Ryan Poles, Ben Johnson, and Dennis Allen. I don’t think Poles was gun-shy after the Claypool and Sweat trades, I think that Johnson and Allen want to see what they have, not give up draft picks for rentals just to move from missing the playoffs to one and done in the playoffs, and get another depth player at DE, one with a low but nonzero possibility of having potential upside.
I mean, saving draft picks, where Ben can have his input is alot better than throwing them away on a one and done, or a big ticket lots of pics and you go over the cap and have to pay the piper one way or another. Just build through the draft and give the coaches time to do there jobs. I mean we actually have some now.