The Chicago Bears had outstanding depth at inside linebacker a year ago with Nick Kwiatkoski and Kevin Pierre-Louis as the first and second options off the bench, but both of those players parlayed their good 2019 seasons into new contracts elsewhere in 2020. Kwiatkoski landed a 3 year, $21 million deal with the Las Vegas Raiders and KPL got $3 million from the Washington Football Team.
Considering Chicago’s two projected starters at inside backer have only two full 16 game seasons between them in 6 combined years in Chicago, I’d say the odds are good that the Bears will need to rely on a third ILB at some point, but right now they don’t have one on the roster that’s proven.