# Lists of Chicago Bears players

The following are lists of past and current players of the Chicago Bears professional American football team.

## Historic teams
### Partial inaugural (1919) roster

The following is a partial roster for the 1919 season, when the team was known as the Decatur Staleys.
| Name | Position | Notes |
| Roy S. "Bement" Adkins | G | |
| (?) Bailey | E | |
| Robert E. "Red" Brannan | E/Coach | |
| (John W.)? Brant | HB | |
| Perry Brecount | QB | |
| (?) Casey | HB | |
| Frank Manley Chase | G | |
| "Joe" Cooper | E | |
| Robert L. "Bob" Crisp | G | |
| (?) Dancliff | C | |
| Chuck Dressen | QB-HB | |
| (Edward G.)? Eckhoff | E | |
| (?) Gammel | G | |
| Sidney "Sunshine" Gepford | HB-FB | |
| Henry J. Halterman | G | |
| "Charlie" Koehler | T | |
| William Lutz Krigbaum | G-FB | Colonel U.S. Army |
| Ralph L. "Jake" Lanum | HB-FB | |
| Chester A. "Baldy" May | G | |
| Walter O. "Red" May | T | |
| (?) McGrath | C | |
| (?) McElvey | HB | |
| John F. "Jack" Mintun | C | |
| George H. Moffett | T | |
| "Bun" Moran | G | |
| (?) Pyrzynski | HB-FB | |
| C. Lawrence Thrift | FB-E | |
| (Willard C.)? Valentine | E | |
| W. Walter Veach | HB | |
| A. Wade Wacaser | T | |
| (?) Wagner | E | |
| Paul C. Wilson | E | Methodist Minister Rev. Paul C. Wilson |
| Fred P. "Fritz" Wasem | E/Manager | |
| Ray C. "Buster" Woodworth | E | |
| Lester "Lefty" Wallack | | |

### Super Bowl rosters

The following lists are lists of the Bears Super Bowl teams.

#### Super Bowl XLI runner-up roster
## Current roster
## First-round draft picks

The following list is of the Bears first-round draft picks since 1936.
| Joe Stydahar (1936) Les McDonald (1937) Joe Gray (1938) Sid Luckman (1939) Bill Osmanski (1939) Clyde Turner (1940) Tom Harmon (1941) Norm Standlee (1941) Don Scott (1941) Frankie Albert (1942) Bob Steuber (1943) Ray Evans (1944) Don Lund (1945) John Lujack (1946) Bob Fenimore (1947) Dick Kindt (1947) Bobby Layne (1948) Max Bumgardner (1948) Dick Harris (1949) Chuck Hunsinger (1950) Fred "Curly" Morrison (1950) Bob Williams (1951) | Billy Stone (1951) Gene Schroeder (1951) Jim Dooley (1952) Billy Anderson (1953) Stan Wallace (1954) Ron Drzewiecki (1955) Menan Schriewer (1956) Earl Leggett (1957) Chuck Howley (1958) Don Clark (1959) Roger Davis (1960) Mike Ditka (1961) Ronnie Bull (1962) Dave Behrman (1963) Dick Evey (1964) Dick Butkus (1965) Gale Sayers (1965) Steve DeLong (1965) George Rice (1966) Loyd Phillips (1967) Mike Hull (1968) Rufus Mayes (1969) | Joe Moore (1971) Lionel Antoine (1972) Craig Clemons (1972) Wally Chambers (1973) Waymond Bryant (1974) Dave Gallagher (1974) Walter Payton (1975) Dennis Lick (1976) Ted Albrecht (1977) Dan Hampton (1979) Al Harris (1979) Otis Wilson (1980) Keith Van Horne (1981) Jim McMahon (1982) Jim Covert (1983) Willie Gault (1983) Wilber Marshall (1984) William Perry (1985) Neal Anderson (1986) Jim Harbaugh (1987) Brad Muster (1988) Wendell Davis (1988) | Donnell Woolford (1989) Trace Armstrong (1989) Mark Carrier (1990) Stan Thomas (1991) Alonzo Spellman (1992) Curtis Conway (1993) John Thierry (1994) Rashaan Salaam (1995) Walt Harris (1996) Curtis Enis (1998) Cade McNown (1999) Brian Urlacher (2000) David Terrell (2001) Marc Colombo (2002) Michael Haynes (2003) Rex Grossman (2003) Tommie Harris (2004) Cedric Benson (2005) Greg Olsen (2007) Chris Williams (2008) Gabe Carimi (2011) Shea McClellin (2012) | Kyle Long (2013) Kyle Fuller (2014) Kevin White (2015) Leonard Floyd (2016) Mitchell Trubisky (2017) Roquan Smith (2018) Justin Fields (2021) Darnell Wright (2023) Caleb Williams (2024) Rome Odunze (2024) |

## Pro Football Hall of Famers

The following is a list of Pro Football Hall of Famers that have been a major contributor to the Bears, along with the year of their induction.
| George Halas (1963) Bronko Nagurski (1963) Red Grange (1963) Ed Healey (1964) William R. Lyman (1964) George Trafton (1964) Paddy Driscoll (1965) Dan Fortmann (1965) | Sid Luckman (1965) George McAfee (1966) Bulldog Turner (1966) Joe Stydahar (1967) Bill Hewitt (1971) Bill George (1974) George Connor (1975) Gale Sayers (1977) | Dick Butkus (1979) George Blanda (1981) Doug Atkins (1982) George Musso (1982) Mike Ditka (1988) Stan Jones (1991) Walter Payton (1993) Jim Finks (1995) | Mike Singletary (1998) Dan Hampton (2002) Richard Dent (2011) Brian Urlacher (2018) Jim Covert (2020) Ed Sprinkle (2020) |

## Retired numbers

The Bears have retired fourteen uniform numbers, which is the most in the NFL, and ranks fourth behind the NBA's Boston Celtics (21), MLB's New York Yankees (20), and NHL's Montreal Canadiens (15) for the most in the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

## Top 100 greatest Bears of all-time

In honor of the team centennial anniversary, on May 20, 2019, the Chicago Bears have unveiled the Top 100 players in franchise history, as voted on by Hall of Fame writers Don Pierson and Dan Pompei, two of the most famous journalists that have ever covered the club in their long history. At the time of the publish, the list included 27 Pro Football Hall of Famers, while two more inductees would join in the 2020 class (Jim Covert and Ed Sprinkle).
Among the 100 Greatest, four active players made the list, including safety Eddie Jackson (96), defensive lineman Akiem Hicks (75), offensive lineman Kyle Long (74) and highest-ranked active Bear was Khalil Mack (60), who played only one season with the team. Long would retire the following year.
On later date, Chicagobears.com released a list titled "Top 10: Best of the rest", that featured the top 10 snubs from the centennial list. The players include (in a following order): Alex Brown, Thomas Jones, Dave Whitsell, Curtis Conway, Tim Jennings, Leslie Frazier, Roberto Garza, Marty Booker, Nathan Vasher and William Perry.
| # | Name | Position | Years |
| 1 | Walter Payton$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | RB | 1975–1987 |
| 2 | Dick Butkus$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | LB | 1965–1973 |
| 3 | Bronko Nagurski$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | FB/T | 1930–1937, 1943 |
| 4 | Sid Luckman$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | QB/P/DB | 1939–1950 |
| 5 | Gale Sayers$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | RB | 1965–1971 |
| 6 | Mike Ditka$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | TE | 1961–1966 |
| 7 | Bill George$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | LB | 1952–1965 |
| 8 | Clyde "Bulldog" Turner$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | C/LB | 1940–1952 |
| 9 | Doug Atkins$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | DE | 1955–1966 |
| 10 | Danny Fortmann$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | OG | 1936–1943 |
| 11 | Dan Hampton$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | DE/DT | 1979–1990 |
| 12 | Richard Dent$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | DE | 1983–1993, 1995 |
| 13 | Jim Covert$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | OT | 1983–1990 |
| 14 | Brian Urlacher$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | LB | 2000–2012 |
| 15 | Mike Singletary$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | LB | 1981–1992 |
| 16 | Bill Hewitt$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | E | 1932–1936 |
| 17 | Stan Jones$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | OG/DT | 1954–1965 |
| 18 | Jay Hilgenberg | C/LS | 1981–1991 |
| 19 | Steve McMichael | DT | 1981–1993 |
| 20 | Devin Hester | KR/PR/WR | 2006–2013 |
| 21 | Joe Stydahar$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | OT | 1936–1942 1945–1946 |
| 22 | George Connor$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | T/LB | 1948–1955 |
| 23 | George McAfee$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | HB/DB | 1940–1941 1945–1950 |
| 24 | Joe Fortunato | LB | 1955–1966 |
| 25 | Ed Sprinkle$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | DE | 1944–1955 |
| 26 | Ed Healey$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | OT/DT | 1922–1927 |
| 27 | Olin Kreutz | C | 1998–2010 |
| 28 | Lance Briggs | LB | 2003–2014 |
| 29 | Rick Casares | FB | 1955–1964 |
| 30 | Gary Fencik | S | 1976–1987 |
| 31 | Charles Tillman | CB | 2003–2014 |
| 32 | Paddy Driscoll$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | HB/QB/P | 1920, 1926–1929 |
| 33 | George Trafton$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | C | 1920–1932 |
| 34 | Matt Forte | RB | 2008–2015 |
| 35 | George Musso$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | OG | 1933–1944 |
| 36 | Red Grange$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | HB/DB | 1925, 1929–1934 |
| 37 | George Halas$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | E | 1920–1929 |
| 38 | Link Lyman$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | T | 1926–1928 1930–1931 1933–1934 |
| 39 | Harlon Hill | FL | 1954–1961 |
| 40 | Ken Kavanaugh | E | 1940–1941 1945–1950 |
| 41 | Neal Anderson | RB | 1986–1993 |
| 42 | Richie Petitbon | S | 1959–1968 |
| 43 | Wilber Marshall | LB | 1984–1987 |
| 44 | Johnny Morris | FL | 1958–1967 |
| 45 | Otis Wilson | LB | 1980–1987 |
| 46 | Doug Buffone | LB | 1966–1979 |
| 47 | Dave Duerson | S | 1983–1989 |
| 48 | Fred Williams | DT | 1952–1963 |
| 49 | Ray Bray | OG | 1939–1942 1946–1951 |
| 50 | Mark Bortz | OG | 1983–1994 |
| # | Name | Position | Years |
| 51 | Keith Van Horne | OT | 1981–1993 |
| 52 | Joe Kopcha | OG | 1929, 1932–1935 |
| 53 | Jim McMahon | QB | 1982–1988 |
| 54 | Ed Brown | QB/P | 1954–1961 |
| 55 | Johnny Lujack | QB/DB | 1948–1951 |
| 56 | Roosevelt Taylor | CB | 1961–1969 |
| 57 | Jim Osborne | DT | 1972–1984 |
| 58 | Wally Chambers | DT | 1973–1977 |
| 59 | Julius Peppers | DE | 2010–2013 |
| 60 | Khalil Mack | LB | 2018–present |
| 61 | Willie Galimore$^𝐟$ | HB | 1957–1963 |
| 62 | Robbie Gould | K | 2005–2015 |
| 63 | Mike Brown | S | 2000–2008 |
| 64 | James "Big Cat" Williams | OT | 1991–2002 |
| 65 | Dick Gordon | WR | 1965–1971 |
| 66 | Mike Hartenstine | DE | 1975–1986 |
| 67 | Ed O'Bradovich | DE | 1962–1971 |
| 68 | Dick Barwegen | OG | 1950–1952 |
| 69 | Bill Wade | QB | 1961–1966 |
| 70 | Matt Suhey | FB | 1980–1989 |
| 71 | Kevin Butler | K | 1985–1995 |
| 72 | Mark Carrier | S | 1990–1996 |
| 73 | Tommie Harris | DT | 2004–2010 |
| 74 | Kyle Long | OG | 2013–2019 |
| 75 | Akiem Hicks | DT | 2016–present |
| 76 | J.C. Caroline | DB | 1956–1965 |
| 77 | Bennie McRae | DB | 1962–1970 |
| 78 | Donnell Woolford | CB | 1989–1996 |
| 79 | Dennis McKinnon | WR/KR | 1983–1985 1987–1989 |
| 80 | Alshon Jeffery | WR | 2012–2016 |
| 81 | Brandon Marshall | WR | 2012–2014 |
| 82 | George Blanda$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛}$ | QB/K | 1949–1958 |
| 83 | Willie Gault | WR | 1983–1987 |
| 84 | Tom Thayer | OG | 1985–1992 |
| 85 | Jay Cutler | QB | 2009–2016 |
| 86 | Allan Ellis | CB | 1973–1977 1979–1980 |
| 87 | Luke Johnsos | E | 1929–1936 |
| 88 | Joey Sternaman | QB/HB/K | 1922–1925 1927–1930 |
| 89 | Mike Pyle | C | 1961–1969 |
| 90 | Beattie Feathers$^𝐟$ | HB | 1934–1937 |
| 91 | Bob Wetoska | OT | 1960–1969 |
| 92 | Bill Osmanski | FB | 1939–1943 1946–1947 |
| 93 | Herm Lee | OT | 1958–1966 |
| 94 | Jim Dooley | FL/DB | 1952–1954 1956–1957 1959–1962 |
| 95 | Larry Morris | LB | 1959–1965 |
| 96 | Eddie Jackson | S | 2017–present |
| 97 | Bobby Joe Green | P | 1962–1973 |
| 98 | Trace Armstrong | DE | 1989–1994 |
| 99 | Doug Plank | S | 1975–1982 |
| 100 | Patrick Mannelly | LS | 1998–2013 |
$^{𝙝𝙤𝙛:}$ Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee. $^{𝐟:}$ Pro Football Hall of Fame finalist.

## All-Time Team

During the week of June 3, 2019 the All-Time Team was announced in parts each day starting with the All-Time defensive players, followed by the All-Time specialists and then the All-Time offensive players.
Larry Mayer of the Chicagobears.com would later state, that according to the voters "if they had included a long-snapper on the team it would have been Patrick Mannelly".

### Offense

| Position | Player | Years played for |
| QB | Sid Luckman | 1939–1950 |
| FB | Bronko Nagurski | 1930–1937, 1943 |
| RB | Walter Payton | 1975–1987 |
| WR | Harlon Hill | 1954–1961 |
| WR | Ken Kavanaugh | 1940–1941, 1945–1950 |
| TE | Mike Ditka | 1961–1966 |
| OT | Joe Stydahar | 1936–1942, 1945–1946 |
| OT | Jim Covert | 1983–1990 |
| G | Stan Jones | 1954–1965 |
| G | Danny Fortmann | 1936–1943 |
| C | Clyde "Bulldog" Turner | 1940–1952 |

### Defense

| Position | Player | Years played for |
| DE | Doug Atkins | 1955–1966 |
| DE | Richard Dent | 1983–1993, 1995 |
| DT | Dan Hampton | 1979–1990 |
| DT | Steve McMichael | 1981–1993 |
| MLB | Dick Butkus | 1965–1973 |
| OLB | George Connor | 1948–1955 |
| OLB | Joe Fortunato | 1955–1966 |
| DB | George McAfee | 1940–1941, 1945–1950 |
| DB | Charles Tillman | 2003–2014 |
| S | Gary Fencik | 1976–1987 |
| S | Richie Petitbon | 1959–1968 |

### Special teams

| Position | Player | Years played for |
| P | Bobby Joe Green | 1962–1973 |
| PK | Robbie Gould | 2005–2015 |
| PR | Devin Hester | 2006–2013 |
| KR | Gale Sayers | 1965–1971 |