Winners and losers of NFL free agency's legal tampering period

Which NFL teams are crushing it in the early waves of free agency? Who seems to be getting left behind?

Since the legal tampering window opened Monday morning, NFL teams have been reaching agreements on contract terms with in-house and external free agents across the league (deals with the latter can't be officially signed until 4 p.m. ET Wednesday). The outlook for several teams in 2025 has already begun to crystallize, though we won't know how these moves actually pan out until football is played.  

FOX Sports' Carmen Vitali and Ben Arthur break down the early winners and losers of free agency ahead of the new league year. 

CHICAGO BEARS

The Bears are infamous for "winning the offseason" in Chicago, and really, in the national storylines. Over the past few years, it's yielded very little on-field results. But something about this offseason feels different. They spent big to get the most sought-after head coaching candidate on the market in Ben Johnson, and they haven't closed their wallets. 

They entered the offseason with the fourth-most projected cap space in the league, much of which they used in trading for guards Joe Thuney and Jonah Jackson, and signing center Drew Dalman, defensive tackle Grady Jarrett and edge rusher Dayo Odeyingbo, completely remaking the trenches in Chicago. They seem to be taking full advantage of the fact that Caleb Williams is on his rookie contract and Johnson is building from the inside out, with the help of Poles. Even better, the offensive linemen are locked into three-year deals, making it easy to move on if it doesn't work out. It also puts them in line with Williams' contract, who will be up for an extension three seasons from now. Every move they've made has been, at the very