Sweat and nobody. That's the defensive end depth chart.

Marcus Davenport retired, and I already noted it here yesterday. What I didn't get into is the fuller accounting of what the Bears spent to get back to exactly where they started. They signed Davenport in August specifically to address a known hole — one pass-rusher, Montez Sweat, with nothing behind him. Davenport was the answer to that. Now he's gone, and the depth chart at defensive end lists Sweat at the top and Dayo Odeyingbo, who has logged no meaningful snaps, beneath him. That's it.

The Bears went through the exercise of fixing this problem and ended up with the same problem. Sweat is healthy and active, which matters. But if he misses a game, or a series, or gets doubled all afternoon because coordinators know there's no one else, the Bears have no answer. That was true in July. It's true now.

The secondary is short, the backfield is thin behind D'Andre Swift, and the defensive end position is a one-man operation. The Bears won close games last year by executing better than their roster suggested they should. The roster hasn't gotten easier to work with.