What Chicago Bears Compete With For ‘Highest-Scoring Offense Ever’

The Chicago Bears, led by coach Ben Johnson, enjoyed a breakout 2025 season, finishing 11-6 and winning the NFC North. Johnson now sets ambitious goals: a Super Bowl victory and the highest-scoring offense in NFL history, aiming to surpass the 2013 Broncos' 37.9 points per game. This challenge is significant, as the Bears face the league's toughest 2026 schedule, contrasting sharply with the Broncos' easy path. Historically, the four teams that scored 35+ PPG all failed to win the Super Bowl that year, despite featuring legendary quarterbacks. While Caleb Williams shows promise and the offense boasts young talent, a porous defense and strong divisional rivals like the Lions, who have an easier schedule, present considerable hurdles to Johnson's lofty aspirations.

The Chicago Bears were one of the feel-good stories of the 2025 NFL season.

After finishing .500 or worse every year since 2019, Chicago went 11-6 in Head Coach Ben Johnson’s first season. The Bears won the NFC North for the first time since 2018, and won a playoff game for the first time since 2010.

Better still, the team was largely exciting to watch.

Chicago was sixth in offensive yards per game, with 369.2, third in rushing yards per game (144.5), but ninth in points per game at 25.9.

Johnson isn’t resting on that success, however.

As part of a profile with Dan Pompei at The Athletic, he stated some clear goals. One of those was winning a Super Bowl. The other, in his words: “I want to have the highest-scoring offense ever…”

He went on to acknowledge that the title there (in the Super Bowl era) currently belongs to the 2013 Denver Broncos, who scored 37.9 points per game; 12 full points more than what the Bears did last year. That Denver group is also one of four teams to put up 35 or more per game in NFL history.

Those 2013 Broncos faced one of the easiest schedules in the league – both by preseason evaluations and postseason assessments as well. Chicago, on the contrary, faces the toughest schedule in the league according to opponent winning percentages from 2025.

The other teams – again, in the Super Bowl era – to score 35 or more per game:

Interestingly, all four of those teams failed to win the Super Bowl in the same season.

Denver lost that year’s Super Bowl, 43-8 to Seattle, while the 2007 Patriots’ unbeaten run ended with a 17-14 defeat against the Giants in February. That Chiefs team, the unofficial “start” of the Chiefs’ dynastic run with Patrick Mahomes, fell to the Pats in overtime of the AFC Championship Game that year. Green Bay, meanwhile, fell to the Giants in the divisional round.