The Chicago Bears brought in veteran center Garrett Bradbury to replace center Drew Dalman after he retired. The former Minnesota Vikings and New England Patriots center is “not coming in to try and re-establish anything,” but to “help” the Bears.
“I’m not coming in to try and re-establish anything,” Bradbury told reporters virtually Thursday. “I’m just trying to learn from these guys, how do you guys work? They won the division last year. They had success, won a playoff game. I’m not coming in to try and change anything. I’m coming in to help. That starts with building these relationships and figuring out how I can help. And then it goes from there.”
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Bradbury played in all 17 games with the Patriots last season and committed no holding or false start penalties.
Garrett Bradbury is “fired up” to join the Chicago Bears and Ben Johnson’s offense
“I’m fired up,” Bradbury said. “I’m not just saying that. Playing against Ben when I was in Minnesota and he was in Detroit for all those years – you watch certain offenses as an offensive line, and there’s just offenses that excite you. His is certainly one of them. You know what you’re going to get. You want to run the football, and you want play-action.“It’s a physical brand of football, which I think every lineman wants to sign up for. Just the brief time I got to talk with him, he relayed that message. It’s going to be exciting; it’s going to be a lot of hard work and that’s what I’m ready to sign up for.”
Johnson was the Detroit Lions’ offense coordinator (2022-24) while Bradbury was with the Vikings (2019-24).
The Bears have done well to add and keep the offensive line intact
Even though Dalman retired at 27 years old, adding Bradbury wasn’t the only thing the Bears did to strengthen their offensive line. The Bears brought back left tackle Braxton Jones to help protect quarterback Caleb Williams blind side and re-signed offensive lineman Jordan McFadden. Offensive tackle Jedrick Wills also re-signed to add more depth to the line.
Williams showed his potential last season, falling just shy (3,942 yards) of becoming the first Bears quarterback in history to throw for 4,000 yards. With that likely being a possibility in 2026, strengthening the offensive line should help Williams accomplish that feat.
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