Defensive End · Chicago Bears

Montez Sweat

No. 98 · 8th season

No Bears player had ever made this list before Montez Sweat

The NFL Top 100 is voted on by the players themselves — the people who actually have to line up across from these guys every week. Getting on it means something. Getting on it first, for an entire franchise, means something else.

Montez Sweat came to Chicago in a 2023 trade and gave the Bears a pass rusher they hadn't really had in years. Someone who could genuinely disrupt an offense, change a game from the edge, make a quarterback feel it. The kind of player other players notice.

This year, they noticed enough to put him at No. 91 on the list. And in doing so, they made him the first Bear to ever appear on it.

For a team that has been rebuilding piece by piece, this is one of those small confirmations that the work is real. Sweat isn't just a name on the roster — he's the one his peers picked out.

The question now is how far up the list he climbs.

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