ASHKUM BEAR Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 Bears reach a 3 year deal with RB Tarik Cohen. Averages to 5.75 per year. Shows they moved on from AR for the time being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 On 9/20/2020 at 6:46 AM, ASHKUM BEAR said: Bears reach a 3 year deal with RB Tarik Cohen. Averages to 5.75 per year. Shows they moved on from AR for the time being. Expand My only assumption is they wanted to get some of these smaller deals out of the way to figure out what they can actually pay ARob. Now with Cohen locked up, I think ARob is next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 Current starters who are UFA after this season: Starters: ARob - 15M Trubisky - 9.2M Patterson - 5.75M RRH - 3.25M O'Donnell - 1.85M Gipson - 1M Ifedi - 887K Scales - 887K Subs making over 1M: Harris - 1.65M Bush - 1M Trubisky currently makes $9.2M, so his contract status is going to be a huge determining factor. Fuller (8.5M), Jackson (7.4M), Quinn (8.6M), Goldman (4.6M) and Whitehair (5.4M) all get big raises next season in the tune of 32.5M. Prime cuts are Hicks (10.5M savings, Graham 7M, Leno 6.2M, Massie 5.4M), which accounts for most of the raises. Then you have Trubisky who currently has a $9.2M cap hit. So to me, it comes down to keeping Trubisky or ARob, you cannot keep both. Trubisky as a starter is going to cost +20M, that is Arob + Trubisky now. Arob wants 20M. So that is likely the decision. Another huge factor is revenue, with empty stadiums, the cap may hit the floor of 175M next year. That's +20M less than this year. That money has to come from someone's current cap hit. There is a chance both Trubisky AND ARob are gone, freeing up $25M from this year's cap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DABEARSDABOMB Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 On 9/20/2020 at 6:46 AM, ASHKUM BEAR said: Bears reach a 3 year deal with RB Tarik Cohen. Averages to 5.75 per year. Shows they moved on from AR for the time being. Expand Rumor was they were working to reach a deal with Cohen and Arob before the game - were able to get 1 done but don't know that it means they aren't working pretty quickly on Arob. I have a feeling we see Arob get paid this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASHKUM BEAR Posted September 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 On 9/21/2020 at 3:59 PM, DABEARSDABOMB said: Rumor was they were working to reach a deal with Cohen and Arob before the game - were able to get 1 done but don't know that it means they aren't working pretty quickly on Arob. I have a feeling we see Arob get paid this week. Expand Let's hope so that drama can be put to rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinger226 Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 I seen on twitter where someone said they have agreed to a deal, 4 yr 75 mil and it would be announced sometime this week. I would say false since I never seen anyone else mention it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 On 9/22/2020 at 12:23 AM, Stinger226 said: I seen on twitter where someone said they have agreed to a deal, 4 yr 75 mil and it would be announced sometime this week. I would say false since I never seen anyone else mention it. Expand There is this: If Cohen actually did this and it gets ARob extended, huge kudos to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinger226 Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 It was not Jason Lieser, but that reported the AROB extension, but i can see the Bears and his agent in talks since they did the Cohen contract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 On 9/22/2020 at 5:39 PM, Stinger226 said: It was not Jason Lieser, but that reported the AROB extension, but i can see the Bears and his agent in talks since they did the Cohen contract. Expand Oh I know, I just saw that and thought it was interesting related to ARob's extension talks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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