{"id":792600,"date":"2026-03-05T01:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/792600\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:33:17","slug":"report-its-70-30-that-kevin-byard-iii-will-return-to-the-chicago-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/792600\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: It\u2019s \u201870-30\u2019 that Kevin Byard III will return to the Chicago Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I missed this report yesterday from ESPN\u2019s David Kaplan \u2014 h\/t to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BN_Bears\/status\/2029320984193544444\" rel=\"nofollow\">Luis C. Medina<\/a> from Bleacher Nation Bears \u2014 regarding Chicago Bears safety Kevin Byard III, and the odds on him returning to Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI was told by somebody who would know, that he is 70-30 that he is going to be a Bear,\u201d Kaplan said yesterday morning <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thekapman\/status\/2028787707837591877\" rel=\"nofollow\">via<\/a> his Coffee with Kap segment on social media channels. \u201cThey\u2019re working on it, they\u2019re trying to get a deal done that\u2019s fair for both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After the season it was assumed that the 32 year old Byard would re-sign with the Bears, but then his market picked up. We started to hear a few other teams were interested in the All Pro, the Chicago Tribune\u2019s Brad Biggs said Byard could command north of $10 million, and suddennly it wasn\u2019t a foregone conclusion he\u2019d be back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Perhaps the strong showing from the safety class at the NFL Combine has teams rethinking their free agency safety budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kap goes on to suggest the Bears could be a team looking to paid Byard up with a rookie safety, which would mean Jaquan Brisker would be elsewhere in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What are your thoughts on Kap\u2019s report? Would you like a Byard-rookie pairing for the Bears in 2026?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I missed this report yesterday from ESPN\u2019s David Kaplan \u2014 h\/t to Luis C. Medina from Bleacher Nation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2672,741,2493,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-792600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-chicago-bears-free-agency","12":"tag-chicago-bears-news","13":"tag-chicagobears","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116173996600877349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}