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For sure. And that portends well.

If we plan on using a relatively high number of 3 TE sets, having a 4th TE might not be a luxury, but a need in case of injuries.

Kromah and Loving played well and earned the job. 4 TEs also, surprised but like that Strange kid. Practice squad will be interesting to see wants to remain a Bear

I like Smith - seems like a good cover corner depth piece. I get he has had some serious injuries - but they seemed like that - serious injuries vs a fluke.

On Monday I think Smith and the TE large will both get put on IR opening up two spots. Hypolite was over drafted and may be out of the league a year later. Can’t stay on field - I’m curious if he is on practice squad - believe he was waived with an injury designation.

Yeah tomorrow there will be some movement. Coby Bryant has to go to the IR too, dont know why he hasnt already, not sure the advantage. Roschon is still not safe, we will see who goes on waivers. I expect we'll pick up a 6th WR too. But for today, here's the depth chart. Green players are new this year, so you can see all the turnover. Oh and Im not saying JVDB is a "starter" its just how I put it on the sheet. Call it a 53 man roster and a rough depth chart.

I'm surprised about Terrell Smith. One question I have is, why is Coby Bryant on the 53 instead of IR or PUP? I admittedly don't pay much attention to those rules and regulations...

I presume we will see a few guys move to IR and then a couple guys picked up. LB looks thin. DB they went light but have a ton of safeties - Lewis can obviously play both. A 4th TE surprises me as well.

Bears 53 QB Caleb Williams QB Tyson Bagent QB Case Keenum RB D'Andre Swift RB Kyle Monangai RB Roschon Johnson WR Rome Odunze WR Luther Burden III WR Kalif Raymond WR Zavion Thomas WR Jahdae Walker TE Colston Loveland TE Cole Kmet TE Sam Roush TE Hayden Large OL Joe Thuney OL Darnell Wright OL Jonah Jackson OL Garrett Bradbury OL Ozzy Trapilo OL Braxton Jones OL Logan Jones OL Jordan McFadden OL Luke Newman OL Theo Benedet DL Montez Sweat DL Grady Jarrett DL Austin Booker DL Dayo Odeyingbo DL Jordan van den Berg DL Neville Gallimore DL Kentavius Street DL Jayden Loving DL Daniel Hardy DL Jamree Kromah LB T.J. Edwards LB Devin Bush LB D'Marco Jackson LB Keyshaun Elliott CB Jaylon Johnson CB Tyrique Stevenson CB Malik Muhammad CB Clark Phillips III CB Josh Blackwell S Coby Bryant S Dillon Thieneman S Xavier Woods S Cam Lewis S Elijah Hicks S Skyler Thomas K Cairo Santos P Tory Taylor LS Beau Gardner

agreed. Some players get the big money and that’s it.

Never blamed the coaches, stating this is year 2 of DA and we are not going to see this vision. It's a huge let down to

More or less all of it although Overthecap just shows his cap hit as 1.075mil, there was no guaranteed money. Contract was listed as $1.2mil value so my guess is there was some type of bonus in there that he didn't achieve.

I don't see how any of that is the coaches fault.

Kiram Armagadje has been released. Cade Barnett (vanilla gorilla) waived. Hope they can get him to practice squad.

Bingo!

Baldy breakdown says it all... https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1D1WvkRGig/

This might mean Gordon starts on the season on IR, which nothing from camp showed he was even getting close. Kyler Gordon has to be the biggest build up and let down from the Dennis Allen era. I thought he was going to be the heart of the D from all the hype we were told.

How much do the Bears save on his 1.2 million contract?

Wills was cut. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him on the practice squad. More importantly this tells me the team has confidence in Ozzy return.

I feel the same. Of course I like both Loving and VDB. Overall I feel the depth at DT has improved but not the top end, that is with or without Dexter. This clears room for the young guys to get snaps and grow so we can know exactly what we have on hand by next offseason. Dexter wasn't going to change between now and February and was not going to be re-signed. That is more important as we head into the next offseason. This is a win now league and there are a lot of coaches who will always prefer to hang onto the veteran over giving rookies playing time. This coaching staff is 100% willing to bet on themselves and their ability to develop young talent. I've only seen highlights of CB Phillips we picked up. Clearly there's a reason ATL doesn't want him so we'll have to learn the downsides. However, I can see that he is an extremely quick athlete. Definitely has that quick twitch you prefer at NB but he hasn't performed well there in ATL. He's not tall nor long enough to really defend boundary throws. I'm curious to see where we try him out first but either way he adds some talent, depth, and experience at the bottom of the roster. Interesting to note that he replaced Jaylon at Utah so that little connection along with Al Harris might help get him back on track.

I think we will see how it works by 5 pm tonight when the 53 is set. Not sure if there is cap savings maybe from surprise cut or maybe another trade.

Is there any cap savings? Phillips carries a $3.8M cap hit for this season, Dexter was $2.1M. Since ATL is only on the hook for this year's bonus, it looks like the Bears would take on the other $3.6M. Dexter actually has a bigger bonus ($472K), so it looks like the Bears will need $2M in cap space with this move.

DB Terrell Smith has been waived. I thought he played pretty good yesterday and had hopes that he would have a shot this year being healthy. WR- Scotty Miller also waived.

Don't know anything about him, but I saw some ATL people say he was better at outside than inside in their system, but struggled against the run. At 5'9, I see no world he plays outside in Dennis Allen's system. But if nickel isn't his strong suit either, I'm not sure how much value he has to the team as a backup. I'm hoping the Bears can get more out of him at Nickel than ATL did, because it would allow Mohamed to play his more natural position on the outside.

It's a tough pill to swallow when you can only get a 5th round pick for someone drafted in the 2nd round only a few years ago, but it's better to get something for a guy the Bears had no intention of re-signing, and who was losing reps to other guys on the roster. The decision to draft him in the first place was always perplexing. He played in a read and react system at Florida, but the Bears drafted him as an up-field player in Matt Eberflus' system. Dennis Allen also uses his DT's as up-field guys instead of space eaters, which is not what Dexter is good at. His get off speed was one of his biggest weaknesses in college. Just horrible scouting by Ryan Poles on this one. There's no way around it. You can't whiff on so many 2nd round draft picks. Unfortunately, it seems like Stevenson and Shemar Turner won't be that far behind.