Chicago Bears News And Rumor Tracker For Nfl Free Agency 2026

The League year officially opens for business at 3:00 p.m. CT today, but as we learned last night, nothing agreed upon during the early negotiation period is set in stone. The Maxx Crosby situation has sent teams back to the drawing board, anticipating a ripple effect.

In case you missed it, on Tuesday night, the Baltimore Ravens backed out of their deal to trade for Crosby, and this morning, they signed defensive end Trey Hendrickson to a contract basically the same as the one they were going to have from Crosby after that trade became official.

Fans of teams rumored to be talking with the Las Vegas Raiders before Baltimore’s bid was accepted have renewed hope that they can pry Mad Maxx away from Sin City. You can count the Chicago Bears among the teams that spoke with Las Vegas, and while their offer wasn’t good enough then, things may have changed.

Fingers crossed the Bears can wiggle their way back into the trade discussion with the Raiders now that the price has seemingly come down, and if so, we’ll share any rumors that pop up down below.

If you want to catch up on all the Bears’ moves so far, you can check out our transaction tracker (open thread) right here.

SB Nation has a leaguewide transaction tracker right here.

We’ll update this news and rumor tracker as reports come in about the Bears all day.

• The Baltimore Ravens signed defensive end Trey Hendrickson.

• You can catch up on all the rumors and reports from Monday and Tuesday in the previous tracker right here.

Chicago’s remaining free agents

Durham Smythe, TE

Travis Homer, RB

Devin Duvernay, WR

Ryan Bates, OL

Scott Daly, LS

Jaquan Brisker, S

Kevin Byard, S

Elijah Hicks, S

C.J. Gardner-Johnson, Jr., S

Jonathan Owens, S

Jalen Reeves-Maybin, LB

Nahshon Wright, CB

Jaylon Jones, CB

Nick McCloud, CB

Chris Williams, DT

Andrew Billings, DT

Joe Tryon-Shoyinka, DE

The deadline to submit qualifying offers to restricted free agents (RFAs) and exclusive rights free agents (ERFAs) is the start of the league year, when free agency opens on March 11 at 3:00 p.m. (CT). The Bears have one such player.

Jordan McFadden, OL – RFA

I recorded a new T Formation Conversation last night with Brendan Sugrue from BearsWire, recapping the first two days. You can check out the audio version here or wherever you get your podcasts.

Video version right here.

If you guys see any interesting rumors or reports, share them in the comment section, but please DO NOT share bogus rumors from random or fake Twitter accounts that make stuff up for likes and shares.