The Chicago Bears didn’t claim any players off waivers. That is not the best barometer for how a team will perform in the upcoming season, but it tells us how general manager Ryan Poles and coach Ben Johnson feel about the locker room.Sometimes, a team can strike gold with waiver claims, as the Bears did with cornerback Josh Blackwell in 2022 or linebacker D’Marco Jackson last year. Often, those waiver claims don’t have much impact.When the Bears report to Halas Hall on Tuesday, they’ll likely have close to the 53-man roster they’ll bring to Carolina for Week 1, along with a practice squad. The defending division champs continued to distance themselves from the Matt Eberflus era by trading Gervon Dexter and waiving 2023 fifth-round pick Terell Smith and 2024 third-round pick Kiran Amegadjie.What stands out about the 2026 post-cuts roster? Here’s our annual by-the-numbers breakdown:Bears, Titans joint practice gets heated after 'cheap' hitDan Wiederer104: Combined starts for the three Bears quarterbacksThe experience in the Bears’ quarterbacks room continues to be a strength. Caleb Williams has started all 34 games. His backup Tyson Bagent has four career starts, and Case Keenum has 66. We saw that play out in the preseason when Bagent and Keenum had strong performances, helping lift some of the younger players. And Williams now has two seasons’ worth of NFL games, plus two postseason games, to lean on.For context, this number would have been four in 2024 ahead of Williams’ rookie season. At the start of 2023, Justin Fields’ third season, the total starts for the quarterbacks room was 29. In 2019, Mitch Trubisky’s third season, the room had 30 combined starts.How rare is it for the Bears to open with the same three QBs on their active roster in consecutive seasons? The last time it happened in back-to-back years was 2014-15 (Jay Cutler, Jimmy Clausen and David Fales).As Williams continues to ascend and cement himself as a long-term starting quarterback, that number will matter less and less. For Year 3 — and Year 2 with Johnson — it’s a positive.18.3 percent: Production gone from 2025 offenseThe offense put up 6,447 yards last season and lost only 1,183 of those in the offseason, with wide receiver DJ Moore getting traded to Buffalo and wide receiver Olamide Zaccheaus moving to Atlanta in free agency. The 53-man roster includes more than 80 percent of that yardage with running backs D’Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai, wide receivers Rome Odunze and Luther Burden, and tight ends Colston Loveland and Cole Kmet. That’s rare continuity for this franchise.Last season, the Bears ranked second in the NFL in offensive yards coming from players 25 or younger, and all those players are back.Tight end Cole Kmet, above, and cornerback Jaylon Johnson return as the Bears’ longest-tenured players. (Geoff Stellfox / Getty Images)3: Ryan Pace acquisitions remainingThis number stays steady with the return of tight end Cole Kmet, cornerback Jaylon Johnson and kicker Cairo Santos. That August 2020 decision to bring in Santos proved to be one that has had a lasting impact on the franchise. He’s in the third year of the four-year contract extension he signed at the end of the 2023 season. Kmet and Johnson were the first picks for Pace of the 2020 draft, as each one enters Year 7 as the longest-tenured Bears.“He’s an unbelievable player, unbelievable corner,” Kmet said of Johnson during training camp. “It’s been awesome to be with him since we’ve been drafted. I do joke that I still am the longest-tenured Bear by like 15 minutes. But yeah, that being said, Jaylon and I have been through a lot together, and no one’s rooting for him more than I am this year. That’s for sure. “21: NewcomersThis is one more than last year, which was Ben Johnson’s first season at the helm. More salary-cap constraints mixed with contract flexibility put the Bears in position to add 21 new players, which is also a sign of Johnson and defensive coordinator Dennis Allen continuing to put their stamp on the team. The 11 rookies also add to that number.4: Undrafted rookiesThe Bears will likely have as many undrafted rookies on their Week 1 roster as they did in 2023-25 combined. This is the most UDFAs they’ve carried entering the start of the season since 2022, when they had six undrafted rookies in Poles’ first year. Two of those players, cornerback Josh Blackwell and linebacker Jack Sanborn, remain Bears.They carried four on their initial 53-man roster but are expected to place tight end Hayden Large on injured reserve. Large provides an H-back option and someone who can be effective on special teams when he’s healthy. Safety Skyler Thomas, defensive tackle Jayden Loving and long snapper Beau Gardner all earned roster spots this summer.7: Combined sacks in 2025 from 2026 Bears defensive tacklesThe Bears traded Dexter to Atlanta, leaving them without their leading sack getter from the interior over the past two seasons. He had six sacks last season, but the fit with Allen’s scheme clearly wasn’t where they hoped it would be entering Dexter’s contract year. Jordan van den Berg’s ascent helped, but he’s a rookie. Grady Jarrett had only 1.5 sacks last season as he battled through a knee injury. Newcomer Neville Gallimore had 3.5 and Kentavius Street had one.26.4: Average age of Bears’ initial 53-man rosterJimmy Kempski of the Philly Voice compiles this every season, and the Bears’ roster as of Sunday evening was its oldest since 2021, when they had the oldest roster in the league entering Pace and Matt Nagy’s final season.