Paul Edinger

They have been fond of saying they were the best 0-4, 1-7, 2-8 team in the league, which doesn't go very far when you continue to lose. Now at 3-8 after Sunday's 13-10 victory over Tampa Bay at Soldier Field, the Bears can keep that claim going with a...

Chris Chandler stayed in the trainer's room so long that Monday became Tuesday and you began to wonder whether he would emerge upright. Even he couldn't really identify all the pain his body had to be in after absorbing seven sacks—five in the first...

The Bears suffered yet another crippling injury in a season filled with them Monday when rookie left tackle Marc Colombo went down just before halftime with a dislocated left kneecap, an injury that could sideline him well into next season. Colombo was...

Sleight of hand—actually, feet—kept the Bears in Monday night's game at the Edward Jones Dome. A fake punt by Brad Maynard, three field goals by Paul Edinger and strong kickoff returns by Ahmad Merritt extended the attention span of viewers of the 21-...

With pained looks and pursed lips, they slowly followed the cart down the Metrodome hallway late Sunday afternoon. The cart carried Rex Grossman, sitting on the back with a tightly knotted silk striped tie around his neck and a bulky black brace...

When Bears running back Thomas Jones fumbled a handoff midway through the first quarter of Sunday's 24-5 loss to the Houston Texans, more than a football slipped through his frozen fingertips. "When the ball is that cold, sometimes it's hard to feel...

A look at how each player on the 2004 roster came to be a Bear. Thirty-three of the 53 players on the active roster (62.2%) were either draftees of the Bears or undrafted free agents signed with the Bears. Seventeen players joined the team via free...

Not that Rex Grossman needed to see how badly his Bears teammates hurt Sunday, but there was no avoiding the pain in his path off Soldier Field. Running back Thomas Jones bent over to slap the ground twice. Wide receiver David Terrell clutched his...

"The first-place, division-leading Bears . . . " It's a phrase that hasn't been uttered often in Chicago over the last decade. But after the Bears' 24-0 dismantling of the Cincinnati Bengals and the Minnesota Vikings' win over Green Bay on Sunday, it...

Now, that's how you make an NFL roster. Veteran wide receiver Ahmad Merritt, on the proverbial bubble, returned the opening kickoff of overtime 87 yards Thursday night to set up Paul Edinger's game-winning 25-yard field goal and give the Bears a 13-10...

Rex Grossman walked out of the visiting locker room late Friday night wearing a Bears hat and a smile, cloaked with enthusiasm that implied he either chose to ignore the stat sheet or had not seen it yet. Grossman had completed 2 of 9 passes for only...

With Kevin Hardy available, would cutting Paul Edinger and restructuring R.W. McQuarters' contract open up some cap room and be a smart move by the Bears to fill the outside linebacker position? --Patrick D., Raleigh, N.C. Patrick, the Bears have...