From Chicago Breaking Sports: "Non-club seat increases will range from $5 to $15 per ticket, while club-seat increases will range from $10 to $30. The Bears non-club ticket prices previously ranged from $74 to $140 and accounted for approximately 85 percent of the seating at Soldier Field. Club seats ranged from $265 to $530. "

No details yet as to what the offer is, or if Rice will accept, but I'll go out onto a pretty safe limb and say that he'll be in Minnesota next season. From Tom Pelissero: "Given the Vikings' reluctance to sign anyone to multi-year deals until the NFL's labor situation is resolved, it seems likely they offered a one-year tender, with the assumption four-year veterans no longer will be eligible for unrestricted free agency under the next collective-bargaining agreement."

Brad Biggs via the National Football Post is reporting that Olin Kreutz should be back in Chicago.

Representatives from every team will talk to most players, but it is a significant sign when early in Day 1 of the NFL Combine the Bears have already connected with one of the top OTs. Many draft boards have Castonzo being taken before the Bears are on the clock, but you never know what the combine will do to those same boards.