The Latest Breaking News from Matt Eberflus

The bounty Ryan Poles received for the No. 1 overall pick might still be better option — especially with the Panthers’ pick currently No. 1 overall. But the Texans’ success with Stroud rekindles a frustrating lament for Bears fans: What are the Texans doing that the Bears are not?

Usually the Bears have too few offensive linemen. But when Davis comes back, they’ll have three quality guards for two spots.

Just two days after his first practice, Sweat played two games for the Bears in five days.

Lions coach Dan Campbell has proven that turnarounds are possible. The problem for Matt Eberflus, though, is that he doesn’t get to do what Campbell did last year — play the Bears twice in the second half of the season.

As Poles progresses through his rebuild, he needs those positions solidified going into next season.

The Chicago Sun-Times’ Patrick Finley, Jason Lieser and Mark Potash analyze the 3-7 Bears’ most pressing questions as they embark on another “mini-bye:”

Thursday night, defensive end Montez Sweat looked a lot more like the player the Bears envisioned when they gave him the richest per-year salary in franchise history.

D’Onta Foreman spent all Thursday thinking about the Panthers, and how they let him sign elsewhere despite rushing for 914 yards in place of Christian McCaffrey last year.

Bears coach Matt Eberflus will wait until next week to give an update as Fields rehabs his thumb injury.

While Chicago and Carolina struggled through a low-scoring, Thursday night affair, the rookie quarterback is busy showing both organizations exactly what they missed out on.

Another season is down the drain, and you know who is to blame again.