Since Hester's final season with the Bears in 2013, Chicago has made the playoffs just twice and failed to win a postseason game. With Johnson at the helm and a franchise quarterback finally in place, Hester appears optimistic this could be the start of a long-overdue new era in Chicago.

Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson and his wife, Jessica, placed their 3,940-square-foot house in Plymouth on the market for $1.1 million.