The 5-3 Chicago Bears will play the 2-7 New York Giants at Soldier Field in a Week 10 matchup. Here’s what you need to know before kickoff (noon, Fox-32).
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5 things to watch — plus our Week 10 predictions
Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart prepares to play against the 49ers on Nov. 2, 2025, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Jaxson Dart always has wanted to play at Soldier Field. Bears fans stuck in traffic on Lake Shore Drive might laugh at that notion, but the 22-year-old Giants quarterback is dead serious.
A Utah native, Dart began his high school career at Roy High School, the same school from which Bears legend Jim McMahon graduated. Dart spent three years at Roy before transferring ahead of his senior season. McMahon is a legend in Utah, where he played at BYU before the Bears drafted him with the fifth pick in 1982.
“It’s just a traditional organization,” Dart told members of the New York media this week.
On Sunday, he’ll be tasked with trying to beat that Bears organization on what forecasts to be the first truly cold day of the season: a high of 37 degrees with 15-25 mph winds. Read more here.
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Bears coach Ben Johnson watches his team warm up to face the Ravens on Oct. 26, 2025, at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
The Bears are indeed a legitimate contender at this early juncture, and it’s something coach Ben Johnson and his staff are delivering meaningful football in November at Soldier Field at a time of year when, the last couple of seasons, it wasn’t premature to start wondering about coaching security, draft order and free agency.
Sunday’s meeting with the 2-7 Giants is not insignificant. Since the NFL expanded to a 17-game schedule in 2021, teams that began a season 6-3 qualified for the postseason 73% of the time. Teams with a 5-4 record made the playoffs 52% of the time. Read more here.
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Meet the new guy
The Browns’ Joe Tryon-Shoyinka reacts after a play against the Bengals on Sept. 7, 2025. (Kirk Irwin/AP)
Bears GM Ryan Poles is in his fourth year on the job, and in all four seasons he has made at least one trade near the deadline.
This year it was the addition of defensive end Joe Tryon-Shoyinka in a pick swap with the Browns. It was a relatively low-cost move for a Bears franchise that preferred to keep its high-priority draft picks.
Poles couldn’t forget the game Tryon-Shoyinka had for the Buccaneers against the Bears in Week 3 of 2023, when he sacked quarterback Justin Fields twice and totaled three quarterback hits. Poles believes the Bears can get more out of Tryon-Shoyinka than the Browns, who hardly used him on defense. Read more here.
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Ex-Bear Israel Idonije tackles a new challenge: South Loop restaurants
Former Chicago Bears player Israel Idonije at his recently opened Buttercup café in Chicago, Oct. 2, 2025. Buttercup is a café by day and an amaro bar and small bites place at night. Idonije is putting his mark on the hospitality scene in the South Loop where he lives. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)
Spend any time in Chicago’s South Loop and you can’t help but notice its charms — from world-class museums and historic buildings to its proximity to lakefront beaches and parks. The one thing missing? A variety of great places to eat, drink and hang out. That’s the opinion of former Bears defensive end Israel Idonije, who has lived in the South Loop since 2014.
For the last two years, Idonije, along with his company Pangea Hospitality Group, has been putting his money where his mouth is with three restaurants — Signature Steak, The Staley and Buttercup — to show for it. Six more hospitality-focused South Loop concepts are in the works, including a hotel, ice cream shop, martini bar, Japanese cocktail lounge and cigar bar. Read more here.
Week 9 recap
It was a gutty victory for the Bears over the Bengals on the road. Much like the Week 4 blocked field goal against the Raiders, the Bears won the exact type of game this franchise almost always loses.
“These types of games, the Bears, we’re normally not winning these games,” veteran safety Kevin Byard said. Read more here.
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