The Chicago Bears open 2026 as the defending NFC North champion, and the win-total ladder has repriced them accordingly: the market now splits at 10 wins, a full win above the line the board carried in late June. The board trades across roughly $83.3K in cumulative volume, ladders over/under thresholds from the low single digits through the 17-game maximum, and settles on the Bears final regular-season win count in January 2027. The live board above carries the current price on every threshold.
Chicago went 11-6 in 2025, won the NFC North, beat Green Bay 31-27 in the wild-card round, and lost 20-17 to the Rams a week later. That season is why the 2026 Bears win total no longer trades like a rebuild. The board is a ladder of over/under thresholds rather than a single yes or no, and the shape of that ladder now puts the coin flip above 10 wins instead of below it. The distance between what Chicago actually did and what its point differential says it earned is the whole argument on this market.
A season win total is not a contender field like an MVP race. It is a set of over/under thresholds on one number: how many regular-season games Chicago wins across the 17-game schedule. The board ladders those thresholds from the low single digits up to the maximum, and the prices form a descending curve, near-certain at the bottom rungs, a coin flip around the central line, and a long shot at the double-digit rungs above it. The market now splits at 10 wins, which gives the Bears roughly even odds of finishing with 11 or more. That is a full win higher than the line this page carried in late June, and cumulative volume on the board has grown from under $10K to roughly $83.3K over the same stretch. Read the live board above for the exact price on each rung. The thin top rungs above 14 wins carry placeholder quotes and almost no trade, so the tradeable part of the ladder sits between 8 and 13 wins.
Point differential is the strongest single input, and it argues against the number. Chicago scored 441 points and allowed 415 in 2025, a +26 differential that projects closer to nine wins than eleven. A team that banks an 11-win record on that margin is a team the market is asking to repeat a close-game run, and that is the math every rung above 10 has to beat.
The counterargument is Caleb Williams in year three, with Ben Johnson in his second season as head coach. Williams threw for 3,942 yards with 27 touchdowns against 7 interceptions in 2025 and added 388 rushing yards at 5.0 per carry, but he completed only 58.1% of his attempts and took 24 sacks. Completion percentage is the number to watch. An offense that stays at 58% keeps asking the defense to win one-score games, while a jump toward the mid-60s is what turns 11 wins into 13.
The schedule is the third lever and it is unfriendly. Chicago opens on the road in the Bears vs Panthers Week 1 opener on September 13, 2026, then draws New England and Seattle, both 14-3 last season, plus Jacksonville at 13-4 and Philadelphia at 11-6. The close is harder still: at Miami, at Buffalo, Green Bay on Christmas Day, Detroit in Week 17, and a finale at Minnesota on January 10, 2027. Four of those five come against teams that finished .500 or better in 2025, and a young roster's December form is what decides whether the higher rungs pay.
Every threshold settles on Chicago's official 2026 regular-season win count once the 17-game schedule ends. The Bears finish at Minnesota on January 10, 2027, and the contracts carry an expiration of January 18, 2027. An over threshold pays $1 per share if the team finishes with more than that many wins and resolves to zero otherwise, so the ladder as a whole prices the full distribution of outcomes rather than a single line. Only games that count in the official NFL standings count toward the total, which excludes preseason and postseason results, and a tie counts as a half-win under each platform's stated rules.
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Resolves on the Chicago Bears final win total across the 2026 NFL regular season. The Bears close the 17-game schedule at Minnesota on January 10, 2027, and the contracts carry an expiration of January 18, 2027. Each over threshold on the ladder pays $1 per share if the Bears finish with more than that number of regular-season wins and resolves to zero otherwise. Only games that count in the official NFL standings count toward the total, which excludes preseason and postseason results, and a tie counts as a half-win under each platform's stated rules. If the season is shortened, the threshold settles against the official adjusted standings per each platform's rules.
The market splits at 10 wins, pricing the Bears at roughly even odds to finish with 11 or more across the 17-game schedule. The ladder runs from the low single digits to the maximum, and the live board above carries the current price on each threshold.
It settles on Chicago's final regular-season win count after the Bears close at Minnesota on January 10, 2027, with a contract expiration of January 18, 2027. Preseason and postseason results do not count toward the total.
The ladder trades on Kalshi, where each over/under threshold lists as its own contract in the season-wins series. No Polymarket book is listed against it, so the board renders as a single-platform market with roughly $83.3K in cumulative volume.
Point differential. Chicago outscored opponents by only 26 points in 2025 while going 11-6, a margin that projects closer to nine wins than eleven, and as of August 17, 2026 the board still centers above 10 wins.
Caleb Williams' completion percentage and sack rate through the first month, then the Week 5 trip to Green Bay on October 11, 2026. The closing stretch at Buffalo, Green Bay on Christmas Day, and the finale at Minnesota is what decides the higher rungs.