{"id":96330,"date":"2025-06-01T19:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/96330\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T19:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T19:05:10","slug":"bears-de-montez-sweat-disappointed-by-injuries-performance-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/96330\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears DE Montez Sweat disappointed by injuries, performance in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bears<\/a> had a disappointing 2024 season, but none may have been as disappointing as star edge rusher Montez Sweat.<\/p>\n<p>Acquired in a trade in Oct. 2023, Sweat played in nine games for Chicago, totaling 25 tackles, 6.0 sacks, and one forced fumble in a season in which he led both the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bears<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/washington-commanders\/363\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Washington Commanders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Washington Commanders<\/a> in total sacks on the season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after joining the Bears, Sweat locked down a four-year, $98 million contract extension that included $72 million guaranteed. Looking to build off his first half-season with Chicago, Sweat had a down year in 2024, totaling 32 tackles, 5.5 sacks, and two forced fumbles in 16 games.<\/p>\n<p>Sweat recently spoke about his disappointing 2024 season, where he was marred by injuries throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn\u2019t make the playoffs. Some of my personal goals that I didn\u2019t meet. Yeah, it was just a disappointing year,&#8221; Sweat said. &#8220;I mean, I don&#8217;t really dwell on it too much. Football is a game but know if you going to get hurt but when. So you\u2019ve got to deal with those type of things and just move forward. I&#8217;m sure that won&#8217;t be my last injury, so I&#8217;ll just be ready for that when it presents itself again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Getting a healthy Sweat back on the field will be a massive help for the Bears and for Sweat, who will now have Dayo Odeyingbo playing opposite him and a new defensive coordinator in Dennis Allen. With Sweat and Odeyingbo holding down the edge, the Bears should be aggressive in getting after opposing quarterbacks this season.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Bears Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheBearsWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheBearsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bearswireusat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bears Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bears\/2025\/06\/01\/bears-montez-sweat-disappointed-by-injuries-performance-2024\/83951870007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bears DE Montez Sweat disappointed by injuries, performance in 2024;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bears DE Montez Sweat disappointed by injuries, performance in 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears had a disappointing 2024 season, but none may have been as disappointing as star edge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2493,593,7,6193,8554,6,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-96330","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-dayo-odeyingbo","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-forced-fumble","15":"tag-montez-sweat","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114609673004122634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96330","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=96330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}