Chicago Bears: Three players Nagy, new coaching staff could target

With the Chicago Bears coaching staff starting to take shape under Matt Nagy, who might the Bears add to the roster to help implement their new schemes?

In just a matter of three days, Ryan Pace, Matt Nagy and the Chicago Bears have laid the foundations for an identity that we may have never seen before in this city.

We all knew Nagy’s hiring was specifically geared toward moving the offense into the modern age and developing Mitch Trubisky into a top quarterback. And his play-calling will likely reflect much of what he’s learned in Andy Reid’s West Coast-spread offense hybrid as far as utilizing playmakers in space and exploiting matchups.

On top of that, the offensive staff he has accrued only accelerates this team’s move into the modern offensive age.

Harry Hiestand, one of the best offensive line coaches in the country at any level, has extensive experience teaching college schemes and developing young linemen. As the Bears’ new offensive line coach, he’ll be instrumental in teaching Nagy’s new schemes to this offensive front.

And Mark Helfrich, the man expected to replace Dowell Loggains as offensive coordinator, is a proponent of up-tempo, high-octane spread offenses going back to his days as Oregon’s OC under Chip Kelly and as its head coach until 2016. Who better to help Nagy lead this offensive revolution and maximize Trubisky, who ran these schemes in college, than him?

More than that, though, several of these coaches have ties to players, both in the NFL and in college, that could help the Chicago Bears.

Here are three such guys that this new staff could target in free agency and the draft.