The Bears are looking to keep Roy Robertson-Harris in the fold. The team tendered a contract to the impending restricted free agent, they announced in a release, and Ian Rapoport of NFL Network tweeted that it’s a second-round tender to help ensure no team poaches him away.
Robertson-Harris will still be free to sign an offer sheet with another team when free agency opens, but the Bears will have the opportunity to match. Should they decline to match, that team would have to give the Bears their second-round pick. Since Robertson-Harris certainly isn’t a star player, it virtually guarantees that no other team will present him with an offer and risk giving up the pick.
Since he entered the league as an undrafted free agent back in 2016, there would’ve been no compensation for the Bears had they tendered him at the original-round level and he walked in free agency. It represents a nice pay bump for the UTEP product, as the second-round tender projects to clock in at a little above $3.2MM for 2020.
He spent his entire rookie season on the reserve/NFI list but made the team in 2017, and his role has slowly grown in each of the past three seasons. He played his biggest part yet this past season when he appeared in 15 games and started seven, racking up 30 tackles, 2.5 sacks, and three passes defended from the interior. All told, he played a hair over 50 percent of the defensive snaps.
With the Trevathan signing and this, must mean that Floyd is basically gone. 13.2 million albatross for a mediocre player. I said when they drafted him he was a tweener, and they never make it.
Plus I’ll wait to pass judgement on the Trevathan over Kwiatkowski argument until I see the deal. Nick could get the Bears a decent compensation pick back next year and it could be helpful. Especially the way Pace hands them out like Tic Tacs.
Can’t wait to see what the Bears do to top this game changer…lol.
Nothing the Bears do will ever matter until they get a franchise QB. Defense has been rendered irrelevant by the league rule changes, but the Bears never got the memo, apparently. This is why no one takes that franchise seriously.