Inaugural Bears Awards: Who was the best offensive addition in 2025?
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What are the highlights of the Bears Awards event?
Rahimi Harrison-Grody.
The great Kevin Harlan.
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Rahimi Harrison-Grody. Middays, 10 a.m. to 2, on The Score.
All right, we are back with, Ray, what was the title?
That's right, Layla. We are back here at the FM Inaugural First Annual Bears Awards. FM Bears Awards.
Okay, so we're continuing in our awards. We said MVP and then we want to do MVP honorable mention. And I was essentially inspired by how the NBA gives out awards because similar to me giving the MVP to the most important position on the Bears, the one who also helped the team win in advance in the playoffs. then you're going to leave out very talented people. So that's why the NBA decided to have more categories. So MVP honorable mention is how I put it. And for me, it is Joe Tooney. As you mentioned, Marshall, you went on talking about all of his accolades. So I'll just give you the winning resume of Joe Tooney. And while you wouldn't think necessarily that an offensive lineman would have that winning resume, I would call this a statistically significant amount of data.
won the AFC East in Super Bowl in 2016. This is when he was with the Patriots. Won the AFC East and made the Super Bowl in 2017. Won the AFC East and the Super Bowl in 2018. Won the AFC East in 2019. 2020, he missed the playoffs, but you know I don't consider the Bears making the playoffs that year real, so I don't care. Kansas City won the AFC West in 2021. AFC West in Super Bowl in 2022. AFC West in Super Bowl in 2023. AFC West who made the Super Bowl in 2024 won the NFC North in 2025. But that really just indicates how when you have somebody who's that consistent and that reliable, how much of a difference they can make on the offensive line. When you have somebody who can make you feel that much better.
And then you stack him up next to Drew Dahlman, who would be my third in this category. And then also Jonah Jackson, who credit to him, had a very good season, especially for a lot of people's concerns the year before. It's Joe Tooney for me. And when you consider how he's protecting everybody, then that also adds to it. His pass protection rate was also very high, you know, 87.7 on the pass blocking. So, yeah, that's why I consider Joe Tooney to be at least the MVP honorable mention when it comes to how he has helped this team.
Nine times that man has made the playoffs in ten seasons. That's enough said for him. That's why he was my MVP. Honorable mention. Give it to Caleb Williams. And if you want to know why Caleb Williams is the MVP because you didn't watch any Bears, well, first of all, shame on you for not watching the Bears in their best season in I don't even know how long.
Who is considered the MVP honorable mention for the Bears?
But also, if you want the reasons, use the Odyssey app. Go to the Rewind feature and go back to the first segment where Mark Grody, he lays it out perfectly.
Caleb? Caleb. Yeah. My MVP honorable mention is different. It is Kevin Byard. I am going Kevin Byard. Seven interceptions in 17 games on a defense which statistically, numbers-wise, wasn't very good, so you had to have that. He also had eight pass deflections, a pro bowler, an all-pro, 93 tackles on the season, and he was... He was a rare combination of leader, as in the one that led by example, which you hear seemingly most of the time, but also led with his voice. Voice and action, that is, and that doesn't always team up for leaders in locker rooms, and it did this year for Kevin Byard, my honorable mention.
So the next one we had on this list is Best Offensive Edition. So since I mentioned Joe Tooney already, I didn't want to be redundant. And no, if you're really judging award processes, I don't know what to tell you because you could also argue that Joe Tooney was the Best Offensive Edition, but they're different awards, so I'm doing this differently.
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