Everyone is releasing their power rankings just over a week after a very busy three days of the 2026 NFL Draft, as the Chicago Bears are getting a lot of believers in them.
NFL Spin Zone's Sayre Bedinger focused on the NFC, ranking the Bears fourth among the 16 teams in the conference. Bedinger points to one reason he likes this Chicago team a lot.
"As much as I'm buying the Chicago Bears as a whole, I think what I'm really convinced about with this team is head coach Ben Johnson. It just feels like he gives the Bears such an advantage week after week. That's not to say the Bears don't have talent, but Johnson is the straw that stirs the drink there. And having the talent he does offensively doesn't hurt, either. The biggest question mark for the Bears will be how they overcome all of the major losses in their secondary. We know who they've brought in to replace some key players, but losing all of Kevin Byard, Jaquan Brisker, and CJ Gardner-Johnson was not a small thing this offseason. The Bears were one of the best teams in the NFL last year at creating turnovers, but do they have enough juice off the edge to be a better team in the pass rush department? It feels like they didn't properly address that this offseason."
Bears fans won't love who is ahead of them in the NFC power rankings
Coming in first in the NFC power rankings are the Los Angeles Rams, followed by the Seattle Seahawks. Filling in at third, though, is the dreaded Green Bay Packers.
Bedinger believes that, with Micah Parsons hopefully returning from his bad ACL injury for the upcoming season, the Packers should be playing better. Bears fans are fully in support of Parsons coming back, so Green Bay fans can stop using his absence as an excuse for them losing the last two matchups against each other, but there is some resentment there for not making Chicago third.
The Bears more than proved last year they were at least the third-best team in the NFC, and the offseason backed that up with improvements to the secondary and by giving more responsibilities to the rookies entering their second season. Chicago's youth movement is a big reason to believe this team has what it takes to make a deeper run than the Packers.
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