Beau Gardner holds the LS · Backup spot in Chicago Bears’s long snapper room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Beau Gardner is a long snapper for the Chicago Bears at 6'5" and 250 pounds. He signed with the Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2026. Gardner played four seasons at UCLA (2020-23) before transferring to Georgia for his final two seasons (2024-25). At Georgia, he appeared in 28 games handling long snapping duties in all of them and earned First-Team All-SEC honors in both 2024 and 2025, also becoming a finalist for the Patrick Mannelly award both years. He became UCLA's full-time long snapper in 2023 after appearing in three games in 2022.

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