In an effort to clear up more cap space, the Bears have restructured lineman Cody Whitehair‘s contract, according to ESPN’s Field Yates (via Twitter).
The former second-round has spent his entire career with Chicago, earning All-Rookie Team recognition in 2016 and a Pro Bowl nod in 2018. Whitehair hasn’t missed a regular season game since entering the league, and he’s started each of his 64 appearances.
While the Bears may have slightly reworked Nick Foles contract, the team will still be looking to carve out extra space after acquiring the pricey quarterback. As Yates notes, the front office has traditionally converted base salaries into signing bonuses in an attempt to open up cap space.
Sounds like they may be trying reinforce that line with additions?
If they didn’t give 9 million guaranteed to Jimmy Graham they might have some space, but a tight end who can’t move and doesn’t block was their priority
Not quite. Foles was a bad move. But who are you going to get? Dalton (big salary) Can (same) Winston (bigger risk than both)? They blew it on not getting Bridgewater. They’ll make some good moves. Hopefully draft goes well.
F*** Bridgewater
They should have signed Brady and cut 4 of their TE’s to clear cap space.
That assumes Brady would have come to Chicago
Stick to trolling the Cubs you ahole
Yeah, the Bears aren’t giving a 43 year old QB $30MM. Way too conservative of an organization to take a risk like that, which is why they’ve only been to two Superbowls in their “hallowed” history. Complete joke.
They stop commenting on posts about them and watching their games, doofus.
Since Pace is so fond of trading away future draft picks, he appears to be in a “go-for-it this year, my job’s on the line” mode, and there’s a need at OL that hasn’t been addressed yet, why not trade next year’s 1st round pick and one of this year’s 2nd round picks and whatever else is necessary (probably next year’s 2nd as well) to make another trade with the Silver and Black to acquire this year’s 12th pick and get your long term answer at LT, like the massive, talented kid out of U of Georgia, Andrew Thomas, and kick Leno inside to LG. Leno’s size is better suited to G anyway. You could have a OL of Thomas, Leno, Whitehair, Bar (the kid from ND who redshirted last year) and Massie leaving Daniel and Coward in reserve. That group should be able to dominate the run game and would be an improvement to give whichever QB a couple more seconds to let passing plays develop, read and throw. I say go for broke!