The Sun-Times’ experts offer their picks for the Bears’ first season under coach Ben Johnson:
Patrick Finley
Record: 9-8. If the Bears learn by the end of the season that quarterback Caleb Williams and Johnson are keepers for the next decade, it will be a tremendous success. Posting just their second winning record since 2012 — albeit with a playoff miss — will be gravy.
Jason Lieser
Record: 9-8. The Bears feel like a .500 team, but assessing opponents is difficult. Are the Cowboys freefalling? Are the Raiders an upstart? Which way do the Steelers and 49ers tilt? If Johnson steadies the Bears, they’ll be in the middle.
Mark Potash
Record: 8-9. With Williams a little bigger project than Johnson might have expected, the Bears will make steady progress that might not show in the record because of a difficult schedule after their Week 5 bye. But the arrow will be pointing up.
Steve Greenberg
Record: 7-10. Walk? Maybe not yet. Crawl? For sure, and that’s not nothing. Watch the Bears win a couple of games and generally hang in there in a lights-out division, and try to remember — that’s called real progress.
Scoop Jackson
Record: 9-8. The hype is real. But what will it lead to? The Athletic list Bears fans as the 12th most optimistic fan base in the NFL this year. They don’t know us. We over-hope everything. 9-8 will be our truth. Reality usually defeats optimism.
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