The Bears have converted $7MM of offensive tackle Charles Leno’s base salary into a signing bonus, according to Field Yates of ESPN.com (on Twitter). With that, the Bears have created $5.6MM in cap space, giving them flexibility as veterans get chopped from rosters around the NFL. The revision will also give the Bears $2.8MM in extra breathing room for 2020 and 2021. 
Leno, a 2014 seventh-rounder, inked a four year, $37MM extension with the Bears prior to the 2017 season. Over the course of his five-year NFL career, the 27-year-old (28 in October) has started in all 61 of his contests.
In other Bears news, the club waived Elliott Fry earlier this week, leaving Eddy Pineiro as the last remaining kicker on the roster.
Dan Bailey on line 1.
More like Graham Gano. He may lose battle in Carolina.
A reunion of Eric Berry and Nagy should be included in the mix just to keep things interesting.
Now that the contract of Charles Leno has been addressed, the next one is that for Jay Leno !!
Don’t quit your day job
That Carolina kicking situation is interesting as well as the Vikings’ kicking situation. I’m wondering if those teams will hold out to see if they can trade one of their kickers.
Bailey is the kicker, Vedvik the punter.
To trade a 5th round pick to get a punter seems pretty steep. You can argue they were blocking the Bears and Packers but I think this guy will be the place kicker sooner than later.
They now have 21 million in cap space so something is cooking at Halas Hall
You are right. It could be an extension for Whitehair.
a lot on the books for next year, so might be a bit early for an extension for him. unless they can convert a signing bonus to reduce the cap hit.