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Bears Opponents for 2025 Include Home Vs. Cowboys and Steelers

The list of opponents for Bears includes 10 games against 2024 playoff teams and home games with Dallas and Pittsburgh.

Gene Chamberlain

Cole Kmet catches a TD pass at Dallas in 2022. The Cowboys come to Chicago next season for the first time since 2019.
Cole Kmet catches a TD pass at Dallas in 2022. The Cowboys come to Chicago next season for the first time since 2019. / Jerome Miron-Imagn Images
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For a team in last place, the Bears hardly came away with what looks like a soft slate of opponents for 2025.

With the end of the regular season, the final few slots were solidified for the 2025 schedule and the Bears must play a formidable slate because they face the AFC North teams. It's made tougher with games against the 49ers and Cowboys, who wound up in last place but traditionally can be expected to bounce back.

Besides playing the Vikings, Packers and Lions home and road in the division, the Bears will host the Cowboys, Giants, Saints, Browns and Steelers.

They'll play nine road games next season and the opponents outside the division are the Eagles, Commanders, 49ers, Ravens, Bengals and Raiders.

They play 10 games against teams that made this season's playoffs: The three division opponents twice, the Eagles, Commanders, Ravens and Steelers.

They last played the Cowboys at home in 2019. The Steelers game could be an interesting one if Justin Fields is still with the team and playing.

The game with Baltimore will be the first since they traded Roquan Smith to the Ravens.

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GENE CHAMBERLAIN

BearDigest.com publisher Gene Chamberlain has covered the Chicago Bears full time as a beat writer since 1994 and prior to this on a part-time basis for 10 years. He covered the Bears as a beat writer for Suburban Chicago Newspapers, the Daily Southtown, Copley News Service and has been a contributor for the Daily Herald, the Associated Press, Bear Report, CBS Sports.com and The Sporting News. He also has worked a prep sports writer for Tribune Newspapers and Sun-Times newspapers.