The Chicago Bears and general manager Ryan Poles have agreed to a contract extension through the 2029 season, NBC Chicago has confirmed.

The Bears are coming off a last-place finish in the NFC North. They are 15-36 in three years under Poles and have two double-digit losing streaks during his tenure.

The Bears lost their final 10 games in 2022 while in a teardown mode as part of a franchise-worst 14-game slide, and dropped 10 in a row in 2024 before closing the season with a win at Green Bay. They fired Matt Eberflus on Nov. 29, a day after he mismanaged the clock at the end of a 23-20 loss at Detroit.

Poles’ biggest move as Chicago’s general manager was when he traded the No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft to Carolina for receiver DJ Moore and the Panthers’ first-rounder in 2024. They used i

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