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Setting goals for all 7 Bears rookies entering training camp

First publishedJul 15, 15:38 UTC
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<p>Rookies and quarterbacks will quietly report to Halas Hall on July 25, three days before the rest of the team arrives for training camp. That’s common practice in the NFL, which allows first-year players to do extra classroom work to get ready.</p><p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears" target="_blank" >Bears</a> rookies will walk into their new home with a task far different than their most recent predecessors — to help an established winner.

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<p>Rookies and quarterbacks will quietly report to Halas Hall on July 25, three days before the rest of the team arrives for training camp. That’s common practice in the NFL, which allows first-year players to do extra classroom work to get ready.</p><p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears" target="_blank" >Bears</a> rookies will walk into their new home with a task far different than their most recent predecessors — to help an established winner. In most cases, they’re not being counted on to be saviors, but merely contributors.</p><p>Here are goals — some lofty, some modest —&nbsp;for each of the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/04/25/meet-the-bears-rookies-breaking-down-all-7-of-their-picks-in-the-2026-nfl-draft" target="_blank" >Bears’ seven draft picks</a>:</p><h3>Safety Dillon Thieneman (Round 1, Pick 25)</h3><h3><b>Goal</b>: Start every game.</h3><p>For all the concerns about Kevin Byard’s age and Jaquan Brisker’s concussion history, the Bears’ two safeties started every game last year. Now both are gone, replaced by Thieneman and big-money free agent signee Coby Bryant.</p><p>Using a first-round pick on at the often-overlooked safety spot only raises the stakes for Thieneman to be dynamic in Year 1.

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<p>Rookies and quarterbacks will quietly report to Halas Hall on July 25, three days before the rest of the team arrives for training camp. That’s common practice in the NFL, which allows first-year players to do extra classroom work to get ready.</p><p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears" target="_blank" >Bears</a> rookies will walk into their new home with a task far different than their most recent predecessors — to help an established winner.
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