The Chicago Bears were the feel-good story of the 2025 fantasy football season. In the first year under head coach Ben Johnson, Chicago produced multiple fantasy-relevant players, including Caleb Williams (QB6), D’Andre Swift (RB15) and Colston Loveland (TE14).
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At wide receiver, things were a bit more spread out with Rome Odunze starting the season hot, the WR3 in fantasy scoring through the first four weeks. He would end up falling off after injuring his foot but DJ Moore and Luther Burden III spent weeks as viable fantasy options.
Now, Moore is in Buffalo and Odunze has a clear path to being the No. 1 receiving option in what should be an elite offense in 2026. That is, if the third-year wideout can stay healthy and get back on track.
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Matt Harmon was joined by Footballguys’ Dave Kluge on the latest episode of the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast to talk the Bears’ receiving room and if Odunze can bounce back this upcoming season.
Harmon believes there’s room for all three of the Bears’ top receiving options — Odunze, Burden and Loveland — to all be impactful in 2026. Kluge agrees with the sentiment but what worries him about Odunze is that he could turn into a “sacrificial X-receiver” as Harmon has penned.
Kluge mentions some similar situations from Johnson’s time in Detroit when receivers like DJ Chark, Allen Robinson, Josh Reynolds were the X-receiver but weren’t getting the target volume you’d like for fantasy football production. Those players were just opening stuff up for the better receiver (Amon-Ra St. Brown for the Lions). Could that be the case with Odunze opening things up for Burden and Loveland in 2026?
