{"id":93930,"date":"2025-05-31T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T19:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/93930\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T19:16:09","slug":"is-tremaine-edmunds-overrated-nfl-exec-argues-its-the-opposite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/93930\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Tremaine Edmunds Overrated? NFL Exec Argues It&#8217;s The Opposite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears did plenty of work on defense this offseason. They added three new defensive linemen and bolstered their depth at cornerbacks. However, they were surprisingly quiet at linebacker. The only notable addition was Ruben Hyppolite in the 4th round. That was a clear sign that new defensive coordinator Dennis Allen liked the setup already in place between Tremaine Edmunds and T.J. Edwards. This has confused many Bears fans who feel Edmunds isn\u2019t nearly the player he was paid to be.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago signed the former Pro Bowler to a contract worth $18 million per year. It felt expensive at the time. Since then, his play hasn\u2019t drawn much praise, even though his production has been solid. He has over 200 tackles, a sack, five interceptions, and two forced fumbles. Yet people believe he is overrated. Jeff Hughes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmockery.com\/chicago-bears\/what-does-the-league-think-of-the-2025-chicago-bears-volume-viii-linebackers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Da Bears Blog<\/a> asked an executive from another team about it. While he agreed Edmunds might be overpaid, people don\u2019t recognize his true value because the Bears haven\u2019t been able to exploit it.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t get Tremaine Edmunds. Am I wrong? \u201cWhat don\u2019t you get? Is he overpaid? Probably. But the Bears weren\u2019t getting him if they didn\u2019t overpay. What\u2019s odd about Edmunds is he\u2019s a perfect complement to a great pass rush and he hasn\u2019t had that in Buffalo or Chicago. You force quarterbacks into some quick throws over the middle and he\u2019ll be a five-pick guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tremaine Edmunds has done the best with what he\u2019s been given.<\/p>\n<p>One constant source of frustration for Bears fans has been their inability to rev up the pass rush. It was why GM Ryan Poles traded for Montez Sweat in 2023. Unfortunately, that hasn\u2019t been enough. Chicago had 30 sacks that season and 40 last year. For context, the NFL leader had 63. Their inability to consistently pressure the quarterback made life harder for Tremaine Edmunds. Even so, he still managed to remain productive. It is hoped this year will be different. The Bears added Dayo Odeyingbo and Grady Jarrett in free agency. Together with Shemar Turner and, hopefully, a second-year jump from Austin Booker, they can finally put some serious heat on teams. If so, it sounds like Edmunds will take full advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears did plenty of work on defense this offseason. They added three new defensive linemen and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2493,7,6,7401],"class_list":{"0":"post-93930","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","14":"tag-tremaine-edmunds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114604053898883066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93930","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=93930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}