{"id":806927,"date":"2026-03-11T19:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/806927\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:44:35","slug":"safety-kevin-byard-iii-nfls-interceptions-leader-in-2025-reportedly-signs-1-year-deal-with-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/806927\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety Kevin Byard III, NFL&#8217;s interceptions leader in 2025, reportedly signs 1-year deal with Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No team turned over opponents more last season than the Chicago Bears. Kevin Byard III played a big role in the havoc-wreaking Bears racking up a league-high 33 takeaways during the 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Now the 32-year-old safety&#8217;s reportedly headed to east, where he&#8217;ll take his ball-hawking skills to the New England Patriots on a one-year, $9 million deal, <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2031801815226835071\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to NFL Network&#039;s Tom Pelissero;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;according to NFL Network&#039;&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" class=\"link \">according to NFL Network&#8217;s Tom Pelissero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Byard led the NFL in interceptions \u2014 a feat he also accomplished with the Tennessee Titans in 2017 \u2014 and finished as a first-team All-Pro for the third time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Byard picked off seven passes, accounting for seven of the 33 turnovers the Bears forced last season.<\/p>\n<p>[<a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"http:\/\/yahoofantasy.com\/baseball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for the 2026 MLB season;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for the 2026 MLB season&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" class=\"link \">Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for the 2026 MLB season<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>This story is being updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No team turned over opponents more last season than the Chicago Bears. Kevin Byard III played a big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[391,7,4861,249,6,126,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-806927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kevin-byard","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-network","14":"tag-tennessee-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116212262675079889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806927","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=806927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}