Share The Packers are getting ready to pay quarterback Jordan Love more this season than the Bears owe for the next four years. For the Packers, making the investment is a good problem to have. For the , though, it’s an opportunity.
Only three teams in the NFL are paying less for quarterbacks than this year’s Bears. It figures to stay that way, too — Williams is making $39 million over his four-year rookie contract and backup Tyson Bagent is in Year 2 of a three-year deal worth only $2.7 million.
That has left a lot of money for general manager Ryan Poles to spend elsewhere. “When you get a guy on a rookie contract,” coach Matt Eberflus said Thursday, “it’s a way you could really do a good job of having that extra money to be able to spend it elsewhere.” Trading for receiver Keenan Allen and taking on his $23.
1 million salary cap hit from the Chargers was a luxury the Bears could afford because of their quarterback’s cost certainty. So was signing running back D’Andre Swift and tight end Gerald Everett. The Bears gave Jaylon Johnson the third-richest contract signed by a cornerback this year and safety Kevin Byard the fifth-largest safety contract, by average annual value.
Allen and Moore are already the most accomplished wide receiver duo ever paired with a rookie quarterback chosen first overall. “I don’t think it’s ever happened in the NFL, a guy comes into a situation like that, being No. 1 overall,” Everett said.
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