This article was originally published on www.si.com/nfl/bears as Ben Johnson making Chicago Bears rookies earn it on team's first depth chart. The excitement that's swelled around the Chicago Bears' 2025 rookie class was calmed quite a bit after the team released its first unofficial depth chart of the NFL preseason.

Chicago Bears special teams coordinator Richard Hightower was emphatic that, in Ben Johnson, “we’ve got a good head coach here — a damn good head coach.”

The Sunday Chicago Bears practice at Soldier Field was a mess, and coach Ben Johnson didn't bother sugarcoating it. Following error-filled offensive performance, the first-year coach and new play-caller publicly expressed his frustration with a unit that looked disorganized and sluggish in front of a large home crowd.