{"id":863362,"date":"2026-04-10T19:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863362\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:12:23","slug":"chicago-bears-free-agency-film-review-s-coby-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863362\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears Free Agency Film Review: S Coby Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With free agency in the rearview mirror and the calendar flipping over to April, the football world&#8217;s attention has shifted toward the NFL draft. Yet, there are still just over two weeks until the <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/nfl\/las-vegas-raiders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> will be on the clock with the No. 1 overall pick.\u00a0In the meantime, I wanted to look back at the major free-agent signings the Chicago Bears made and see exactly what they are getting for the money they spent this offseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The marquee signing that general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/ryan-poles-26654\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Poles<\/a>\u00a0pulled off was bringing in Super Bowl champion safety <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/coby-bryant-79710\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coby Bryant<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a>. Poles agreed to a three-year deal worth $40m, with $25.7m guaranteed. Thanks to some <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/nfl\/chicago-bears\/article\/the-chicago-bears-general-manager-ryan-poles-did-a-good-job-on-day-one-of-free-agency-277083747\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">contract wizardry<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/bryant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryant<\/a> will only count $5.9m toward this season&#8217;s cap, before jumping up to $17m in years two and three. Bryant is coming off his best season after being drafted in the fourth round out of the University of <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/cincinnati\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati<\/a>, putting up a career high four interceptions and four tackles for loss. The advanced numbers also back up Bryant&#8217;s 2025 breakout, as he allowed the lowest career completion percentage (59%) and passer rating allowed (54.0).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speed, Speed, Speed<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the additions the Bears made on defense was to add more speed. There were so many instances where guys would just run by Bears defenders, especially in the Sunday Night game against the San Francisco 49ers. Bryant is much faster than the two safeties he&#8217;s replacing, <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/jaquan-brisker-93953\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaquan Brisker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/kevin-byard-9140\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Byard<\/a>. He&#8217;s not a true speed blazer (4.54 40-yard dash), but he has great playing speed in both the pass and the run. In Week 6, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/nfl\/jacksonville-jaguars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> on their own 41-yard line, Bryant lined up at the Seahawks 45. From the snap, it took Braynt four seconds to run 15 yards to blow up an outside zone play by <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/travis-etienne-88104\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Etienne<\/a> for a loss of one.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With free agency in the rearview mirror and the calendar flipping over to April, the football world&#8217;s attention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2493,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-863362","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-chicagobears","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116382003716491476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863362","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=863362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}