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They have to be a minority to be awarded compensation.

I also seen where Jeff King was interviewed for a GM job but dont remember the team. If they have success this year and King leaves (Adam) would we get a pick or do you have to be black to get the comp pick?

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You may be right but both OTC and SpoTrac show him on a 3 year deal from 2023. Tyson Bagent signed a 3 year, $2,720,000 contract with the Chicago Bears, including $25,000 signing bonus, $25,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $906,667. In 2025, Bagent will earn a base salary of $1,030,000, while carrying a cap hit of $1,038,334 and a dead cap value of $8,334. the Bears website under team shows a heading (transactions) that list every transction done since the begining of the year and I cant find that extension.

something is up - I dunno what it is, but yes something...

When I watched Keenum’s press conference someone asked him about making the 53 man roster. He hesitated just a bit and looked away before answering with some generic statement. It felt a bit deceitful to me. I’m going to go out on a limb and say there is already an agreement in place of some sort regarding the final roster. That can be either way. I’ll watch and see what he says about his family but my suspicion is that he’s getting money to work for the summer. If Caleb builds a good relationship with him then there’s nothing stopping him then from chatting about things during the regular season.

Yes, I JUST wrote "And of course Ersery was on my radar and Trapilo wasnt, so it was a surpise for me, but Im willing to say that was a good trade."

no its not the original contract anymore - they extended it, which means a new longer deal.

they extended Bagents contract.

2026 Poles will have little wiggle room without working some magic. They won't be active in FA since they are already projected over the cap for 2026. I think at some point this year, they extend Brisker or Byard so there is some continuity going forward. I hope that udfa from Oregon can play. That would be a bonus. The draft will be RB, S, TE and NT just to fill open roster positions for losses to fa. At least the RB class is just as good if not better. If the Bears want some extra cap and decide to trade Kmet to free up space, they will need to sign/draft 2 since they will already need to add 1, so that doesn't seem logical. TE is the second hardest position to learn after QB and you need experience. They might extend him and spread the salary out. Braxton Jones has trade written all over him and I hope he comes back and plays well enough for interest. The trade will have to be a 2nd or 3rd, imo. We should get a 3rd comp if he signs elsewhere in fa. As for Ian Cunningham getting a GM job, it would be in the Bears best interest to happen 2027 when they will need draft assests the most. If the Bears are hot this season, he will probably get his gig.

What ever you want to call it, he is under the original deal when we first obtained him. He was a rookie when he signed it so I called it a rookie contract, I dont know of more technical names.

Bagent signed a 3-year UDFA deal, so technically, he is not on a typical 4 or 5-year rookie deal. This is the last year of that deal.

Tyson Bagent is still on his rookie contract, I think they like him so not sure they would put him on the PS. Clearly Keenum was brought in to help mentor Caleb and may end up on the 53 man roster. I think every rookie makes the 53. They will play with the roster to guess who can be put on the PS to make sure they dont lose him.

Did you ever thing they didnt value Ersery as high as you did? If they valued him, they would have taken him. You think they moved back thinking they could still get him. Maybe they liked Trapilo more. The first four picks by their reactions, told me they wanted them, not settled for someone else. That is the reason they traded back. They also may not have seen RB as that critical of a need. That is what pundits projected. We assume a lot of what they thought, wanted, and did. Its not any different than thinking they would have took Banks. Poles has no problem moving arouind to get players, moving a couple spots to get Banks was doable if that mattered. Im saying that wasnt their plan. In the war room video, at 9.47 BJ tells Colston, he played the highlight video before the draft to give the rest of the room a little insight on where they would go. That sounds like they intented to take him. Also At 9.10 Jeff King says that the more they watched film the more that knew Colston was the pick for them. If I could see the Jeff King conversation, then I would understand your points. I have extensively looked and cant find it. Lots of tape of CC talking about the draft and who they liked, but I think more her opinion than repeating what Jeff King said. I know he had a press conference its just about how he worded statements.

I actually think they KIND OF can, and that we did a good job of that. We targeted tradedowns, and the teams that took the players before us traded up into those spots, and that's where we were potentially a little too greedy? So we might have correctly predicted the teams on the board, but not considered people trading ahead of us.

right, Im talking about the tradedowns after that. 3rd round and later. I would have taken Ersery at 41, but if Trapilo works out, then that trade down was fantastic, and Turner (is that who you meant instead of Stewart?) is going to be great for us. So that trade down worked out OK *IF* Trapilo is good. And of course Ersery was on my radar and Trapilo wasnt, so it was a surpise for me, but Im willing to say that was a good trade. Im talking about after that, when we let HBs go, traded down, and then saw them stolen right before we picked - I think that happened twice? Like we were going down our HB list, and kept getting played. The question was more like KJ or Sketebo vs Rah the CB and someone else from the 5th round.

that all makes sense. i think they Bears might toy with the idea of converting him to a coach if circumstances force it, like an injury like you say, or a good crop of developing young players.

Right, we got these two quality hogs for pick 41 and 72. If we didn't trade, sure we could have drafted Kaleb Johnson, who I was all for. I think after Henderson was gone, Poles wasn't too worried about the rest of the backs and figured he would get a guy before it was over. He also could buy a vet FA if they missed out. There is no way any GM can calculate what 31 other teams need and where they rate players. The Bears brass seem happy and get to add at least 7 more guys next draft.

The only way a PS guy gets poached is if he is signed to another team's 53-man roster, so that process would only be indirectly impacted by keeping Keenum on the 53-man. So if Keenum was on the roster last year, he would've replaced Blasingame or Velus based on usage. Blasingame = 10 snaps + 25 ST snaps Jones Jr. = 4 snaps + 12 ST snaps If he makes it this year, he would either replace RB5 or WR6 Right now that is Scott or Toure as WR6 or the loser of Monangai or Wheeler as RB5. If Monangai loses out, he is a PS Candidate anyway. It doesn't seem like Keenum would negatively impact the game day rosters. I am sure injuries will drive this decision. He is a nice luxury until a key starter goes down and they need the depth at a different position.

I absolutely would take Trapilo and Stewart over either of those guys.

true. the 3rd emergency QB doesnt count against the gameday 47 or 48 or whatever that number is. But if that costs us one of our drafted guys getting poached off of the practice squad, then all the more reason to have taken a HB earlier and not trade down?

Im talking about in the 3rd round and later - our trade backs. There was an interview with Jeff King, which i cant find now, where he acknowledged that they were hoping for other HBs earlier; Kaleb Johnson, Cam Sketbo and one other guy I forget. There have also been a ton of articles suspecting the same. It seems like, more than once, we targeted a HB and traded back only to have someone pop up in front of us and take one of those HBs within a few picks of our new traded back picks. From all of this, I conclude that Pace read the board as afar as who needed what, and maximized value by trading back, but failed to calculate other teams trading in front of us to snag that HB. Also, just logically, would you rather have Kaleb Johnson or Cam Skatebo vs. our extra later picks that we got in those tradedowns?

It could happen, but with the emergency QB thing, it wouldn't impact the game day roster as all. As for the 53-man, the bottom 3-5 guys come up and down from the PS anyway, so having one fewer guy do that to have a 3rd QB (if he is that important) seems like a no brainer.

How do you know he misread the board, let alone multiple times? The running backs didn't pop off crazy, but the OL sure did.