Watch: Actor, Glenbard South grad Morris helps Bears introduce 2025 schedule
The Bears 2025 schedule is out and the team’s social media team found another unique way to reveal this fall’s slate. The Bears released their 2025 schedule with a video featuring actor Lamorne Morris, a graduate of Glenbard South High School and College of DuPage.
The league released the schedule for all 272 games, including all 17 Bears games.
In the Bears’ video, Morris is inside new Bears coach Ben Johnson’s office and receives the Bears’ 2025 schedule. Johnson calls Morris and asks him to email him the schedule, but Morris instead emails it to every person named “Ben Johnson” on the Bears’ marketing list.
Morris, along with Bears players like Caleb Williams, Rome Odunze, Cairo Santos, former Bears cornerback Charles Tillman, go around trying to stop the other Ben Johnsons from seeing the schedule. Actor Jake Johnson, who was in the show “New Girl” with Morris, and the Bears’ DJ Moore and Cole Kmet were also featured.
This year’s announcement followed a recent trend of teams announcing their schedules with unique videos. The Bears revealed last year’s schedule by doing a spoof of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the hit 1986 movie starring Matthew Broderick. In 2023 the team made a video of players pretending to work in a restaurant kitchen like in the hit show set in Chicago, “The Bear.”
No schedule release has become as popular as the one the Titans released in 2023. During that video the Titans asked random people on the streets of Nashville to identify NFL logos with hilarious results.
Bears set for prime-time slots
The NFL clearly showed that it has faith the Bears take a big step in Johnson’s first year. The Bears are slated for five prime-time games this fall. They played in five stand-alone games last season and in four prime-time games in 2023.
The league didn’t waste time throwing the Bears in the spotlight, either. They’ll open the season on Sept. 8 on Monday Night Football against the Minnesota Vikings at Soldier Field. Vikings quarterback and Nazareth alumnus J.J. McCarthy will likely make his first NFL start back home against Williams.
The Bears return to the spotlight on Oct. 13 when they travel to play the Washington Commanders on Monday Night Football. There should be plenty of drama for this matchup after last season’s last-second loss on a Hail Mary.
Chicago will also play at the Eagles on Nov. 28 in the third annual Black Friday game. It will be the second straight year the team gets a stand-alone slot during the Thanksgiving weekend after playing at the Lions on Thanksgiving last season.
A tough final three games of the season will be started with a stand-alone window on Dec. 20 when the Bears host the Green Bay Packers. They’ll then travel to San Francisco the following week to play the 49ers on Dec. 28 for Sunday Night Football.
If there’s a lot on the line in Week 18, the Bears’ home game against the Lions could also get prime-time treatment.
Breaking down the schedule
The Bears will have one of the hardest schedules this season based on last season’s records. Although last year’s records likely don’t mean much for this season, the Bears will play five teams who’ve made the playoffs for at least two straight seasons.
They’ll have an early bye in Week 5, which could be a good or bad thing. It might serve as a nice reset if the season doesn’t start as well as the Bears would like. But a later bye week would be nice as the season progresses, especially as injuries pile up.
After that Week 5 bye, the Bears will play six of their next nine games on the road. One of the toughest stretches of the season starts in Week 8 when the Bears play three of four on the road. They’ll start on the road against the Baltimore Ravens on Oct. 26 before staying on the road the next week against the Cincinnati Bengals on Nov. 2.
The Bears will come back home to play the New York Giants on Nov. 9 before going back on the road at the Minnesota Vikings on Nov. 16.
The final three games of the season will be a tough task if the Bears are contending for a playoff slot. They’ll host the Packers on Dec. 20 before traveling to the 49ers and hosting the Lions to cap the regular season off.