A discussion pertaining to the Chicago Bears\u2019 defensive line and their need for improvement is about as predictable and common as seeing a proper Chicago-style dog featuring an all-beef frank on a poppy-seed bun. For the most part, defensive end has been largely untouched, aside from their recent signing of Marcus Davenport. That might very well be changing in the near future.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t be surprised if … the Bears still trade for an edge rusher.<\/p>\n
What I\u2019m hearing: Chicago is thin on defense, especially on the back end. But it\u2019s up front where the team is still looking for a strong edge presence opposite Montez Sweat<\/a>. The Bears added veteran Marcus Davenport<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, but that move doesn\u2019t appear to be working out; they let Davenport go in their initial cut down to 53 players over the weekend before bringing him back on the practice squad. Bears GM Ryan Poles has been an active and aggressive trader in his time with the team, and he\u2019ll turn over every rock he can looking for an impact player up front. The Bears\u2019 health issues on defense might be more concentrated on the back end, but improving the pass rush would help the secondary, too.<\/p>\n This, of course, is not the first time the Bears have been tied into trade rumors for bolstering their group of down linemen on defense. Earlier in the spring came confirmation by general manager Ryan Poles himself on their interest in Maxx Crosby. There was also a documented interest in Vita Vea shortly before his contract extension was finalized. And there has been a precedent set in Chicago for late major trades involving DL dating back to 2004.<\/p>\n Even at the trade deadline last year \u2014 and to a much lesser extent \u2014 the Bears acquired Joe Tyron-Shoyinka from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This, along with Ryan Poles\u2019 overall history of swinging big trades, has everyone curious as to what his next move will be. For a team pursuing their first Super Bowl Championship in decades, you\u2019d have to imagine everything (reasonable) is on the table.<\/p>\n Coming off the heels of their latest trade shipping Gervon Dexter Sr to the Atlanta Falcons, the Bears seem poised to make their next appearance at bat for the market. Who they\u2019re targeting \u2014 Maxx Crosby, Josh Sweat, etc. \u2014 is unknown. And whether this is a Pete Crow-Armstrong, AKA MVPete-sized swing, remains to be seen as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A discussion pertaining to the Chicago Bears\u2019 defensive line and their need for improvement is about as predictable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":990184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,85235,5583,2493,7,6],"class_list":["post-990183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-bears","tag-bears","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears","tag-chicago-bears-discussion","tag-chicago-bears-rumors","tag-chicagobears","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117203050390736382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990183","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=990183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/990184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}