Braxton Jones

PRO CAREER: Entering his fifth season with the Bears in 2026...Has played in 46 career games with 44 starts...Originally entered the NFL as a fifth-round selection (No. 168 overall) of the Bears in the 2022 NFL Draft.

2025 SEASON (BEARS): Appeared in six games (four starts) before spending the remainder of the season on the Reserve/Injured list...Helped an offensive line that gave up zero sacks in Week 3 against the Cowboys.

2024 SEASON (BEARS): Started 12 games at left tackle...Was placed on injured reserve following Week 16.

2023 SEASON (BEARS): Started at left tackles in all 11 games he appeared in...Returned to action in Week 9 after spending time on injured reserve.

2022 SEASON (BEARS): Started every game of the 2022 season as a rookie...Started at left tackle in Week 1 vs. San Francisco and played every offensive snap...In making the start, became just the sixth offensive lineman drafted in the fifth-round or later to start a game at left tackle for an NFL team, joining Russell Freeman (DEN, 1992), Everett Lindsay (MIN, 1993), Shar Pourdanesh (WAS, 1996), Mike Harris (SD, 2012) and Desmond Harrison (CLE, 2018) (STATS Research).

TRANSACTIONS

05/06/2022: Signed/draft choice  to the Bears
03/13/2026: Re-signed with Bears

COLLEGE: Spent five seasons (2017-21) at Southern Utah University appearing in 35 games...2021 first-team All-Big Sky selection...HERO Sports FCS All-American selection...AP FCS First Team All-America selection...In 2019, was named Sophomore All-American by HERO Sports...Named to the All-Big Sky Third Team.

PERSONAL: Named Offensive MVP and All-Region two years in a row while playing for Murray High School (Utah)...Also played basketball.