List of Chicago Bears players

The following are lists of past and current players of the Chicago Bears professional American football team.

Historic teams

Partial inaugural (1919) roster

The following is a partial roster for the 1919 season, when the team was known as the Decatur Staleys.

Super Bowl rosters

The following lists are lists of the Bears Super Bowl teams.

Super Bowl XX championship roster

Super Bowl XLI runner-up roster

Current roster

First-round draft picks

The following list is of the Bears first-round draft picks since 1936.^[2]

Pro Football Hall of Famers

Walter Payton set several franchise and NFL records in rushing during his 13-season career with the Bears

The following is a list of Pro Football Hall of Famers that have been a major contributor to the Bears, along with the year of their induction.

Retired numbers

The Bears have retired fourteen uniform numbers, which is the most in the NFL, and ranks fourth behind the NBA's Boston Celtics (21), MLB's New York Yankees (20), and NHL's Montreal Canadiens (15) for the most in the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

Chicago Bears retired numbers
Bronko Nagurski FB/LB/T 1930–1937, 1943 Minnesota	George McAfee RB/DB/PR 1940–1941, 1945–1950 Duke	George Halas End/HC Owner/Founder 1920–1983 Illinois	Willie Galimore RB 1957–1963 Florida A&M	Walter Payton RB 1975–1987 Jackson State	Gale Sayers RB/KR 1965–1971 Kansas	Brian Piccolo RB/FB 1965–1969 Wake Forest
Sid Luckman QB/DB/P 1939–1950 Columbia	Dick Butkus MLB 1965–1973 Illinois	Bill Hewitt End 1932–1936 Michigan	Bill George MG/MLB 1952–1965 Wake Forest	Clyde Turner C/LB 1940–1952 Hardin-Simmons	Red Grange RB/DB 1925, 1929–1934 Illinois	Mike Ditka TE 1961–1966 HC 1982–1992 Pittsburgh

Top 100 greatest Bears of all-time

In honor of the team centennial anniversary, on May 20, 2019, the Chicago Bears have unveiled the Top 100 players in franchise history, as voted on by Hall of Fame writers Don Pierson and Dan Pompei, two of the most famous journalists that have ever covered the club in their long history.^[32] At the time of the publish, the list included 27 Pro Football Hall of Famers, while two more inductees would join in the 2020 class (Jim Covert and Ed Sprinkle).

Among the 100 Greatest, four active players made the list, including safety Eddie Jackson (96), defensive lineman Akiem Hicks (75), offensive lineman Kyle Long (74) and highest-ranked active Bear was Khalil Mack (60), who played only one season with the team. Long would retire the following year.

On later date, Chicagobears.com released a list titled "Top 10: Best of the rest", that featured the top 10 snubs from the centennial list. The players include (in a following order): Alex Brown, Thomas Jones, Dave Whitsell, Curtis Conway, Tim Jennings, Leslie Frazier, Roberto Garza, Marty Booker, Nathan Vasher and William Perry.^[33]

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All-Time Team

During the week of June 3, 2019 the All-Time Team was announced in parts each day starting with the All-Time defensive players,^[34] followed by the All-Time specialists^[35] and then the All-Time offensive players.^[36]

Larry Mayer of the Chicagobears.com would later state, that according to the voters "if they had included a long-snapper on the team it would have been Patrick Mannelly".^[37]

Offense

Defense

Special teams

Starting quarterbacks

The following list is a list of starting quarterbacks of the Bears.

Early Era (1920–1969)

1920s

• Chuck Dressen 1920
• Jimmy Conzelman 1920
• Paddy Driscoll 1926–1929
• Tom Hearden 1929

1930s

• Carl Brumbaugh 1930–1934 – Two League Championships
• John Doehring 1932–1935, 1937
• Bernard Masterson 1935–1939
• Chuck Apolskis 1938-1939

1940s

• Sid Luckman 1940–1948 – Four League Championships
• Raymond R. Schumacher 1946–1948^[38]
• Wally Dreyer 1949

1950s

• Johnny Lujack 1949–1951
• George Blanda 1949–1959
• Harper Davis 1950
• Ron Drzewiecki 1955–1958
• Ed Brown 1955–1959

1960s

• Zeke Bratkowski 1960
• Billy Wade 1961–1964 – League Championship
• Rudy Bukich 1965–1966
• Jack Concannon 1967–1970

Modern Era (1970–present)

1970s

• Bobby Douglass 1971–1972
• Gary Huff 1973–1975
• Bob Avellini 1976–1979
• Mike Phipps 1977–1981
• Vince Evans 1977–1983^[39] (only Bear to score a perfect passer rating in a game)

Jim McMahon, the Bears starting quarterback for most of the 1980s, helped the team win Super Bowl XX.

1980s

• Jim McMahon 1982–1988
• Rusty Lisch 1984 (never listed as an official starter)
• Steve Fuller 1984–1986 (never listed as an official starter)
• Doug Flutie 1986 (never listed as an official starter)
• Mike Tomczak 1986–1990

1990s

• Jim Harbaugh 1989–1993
• Peter Tom Willis 1992 (never listed as an official starter)
• Steve Walsh 1994
• Erik Kramer 1994–1995, 1997–1999
• Dave Krieg 1996
• Rick Mirer 1997
• Steve Stenstrom 1998
• Moses Moreno 1998 (never listed as an official starter)
• Shane Matthews 1999–2001
• Cade McNown 1999–2000

2000s

Jay Cutler

• Jim Miller 2001–2002
• Chris Chandler 2002–2003 (never listed as an official starter)
• Henry Burris 2002
• Kordell Stewart 2003
• Rex Grossman 2003,^[40] 2004–2007, 2008
• Chad Hutchinson 2004
• Jonathan Quinn 2004
• Craig Krenzel 2004
• Kyle Orton 2005, 2007,^[41] 2008
• Brian Griese 2007
• Jay Cutler 2009–2016

2010s

• Jay Cutler 2009–2016
• Todd Collins 2010
• Caleb Hanie 2011
• Josh McCown 2011, 2013
• Jason Campbell 2012
• Jimmy Clausen 2014, 2015
• Brian Hoyer 2016
• Matt Barkley 2016
• Mike Glennon 2017
• Mitchell Trubisky 2017-2020

2020s

• Mitchell Trubisky 2017–2020

• Nick Foles 2020

References

External links

• Official website