Week 3 Chicago Bears Head Coach Search for news and rumors

On January 21, 2025By Littum

The Chicago Bears are rolling into the third week of their head coaching search, so we had to launch a new rumor and news tracker to give you a fresh comments section.

Our Week 1 tracker also doubles as our story feed, bringing together all of our coverage, which can be found here. If you want to scroll through all the reports from week two, that tracker can be found here.

Here are Chicago’s confirmed and completed interviews: Mike Vrabel (NE staff), Anthony Weaver, Drew Petzing, Mike Kafka, Pete Carroll, Aaron Glenn, Ben Johnson, Ron Rivera (personal), Thomas Brown, David Shaw, Arthur Smith, Mike McCarthy (individual), Brian Flores, Joe Brady, Todd Monken, Adam Stenavich and Eddie George (individual).

The Chicago Tribune’s Brad Biggs also reported that he believes the Bears have spoken Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell, but the team did not announce it.

The Fresh Tracker launched on January 20th with reports and rumors about the Bears.

BEN JOHNSON IS A BEAR (CONNECTION) OMG
There is plenty of buzz surrounding the Bears and Ben Johnson this morning. (here and here)
The Saints plan to interview McCarthy this week, according to multiple sources.
Adam Schefter reports that McCarthy is in play for the Bears and the Saints. (connection)
Mike McCarthy still has only had one interview, with the Bears last week, and some believe that’s because Chicago is the job he wants. (connection)
Most of the talk from various local and national insiders connects Ben Johnson, Mike McCarthy, Todd Monken and Brian Flores to the Bears, and it seems like an obvious final four.