The Bears have signed linebacker Danny Trevathan to a new three-year deal, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com (Twitter link). Trevathan had been scheduled to become a free agent when the market opens.
Trevathan turns 30 years old later this month and missed time in 2019 due to an elbow injury, so there was no guarantee Chicago would re-sign the veteran ‘backer. Indeed, Trevathan has missed 19 of 64 games since inking a four-year, $28MM deal prior with the Bears to the 2016 campaign. But he’s shown enough when on the field — and as a locker room presence — to warrant a new deal from general manager Ryan Pace.
There’s no word as of yet on Trevathan’s new annual salary or guaranteed money. His $7MM yearly average now pales in comparison to the top of the off-ball linebacker market, where Bobby Wagner and C.J. Mosley currently top the list at $18MM and $17MM, respectively. Trevathan clearly won’t come close to those figures, but it’s possible he sees a bump on his previous per-year commitment.
A former sixth-round pick, Trevathan spent the first four years of his career with the Broncos before Denver allowed him to leave for Chicago. In 2018, Trevathan played all 16 games for just the second time in his career before missing seven contests in 2019. Last year, he posted 70 tackles and one sack while grading as Pro Football Focus‘ No. 39 linebacker among 89 qualifiers.
With Trevathan back in the fold, the Bears are almost assuredly prepared to let fellow linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski walk in free agency. Kwiatkoski, a fourth-round pick in the 2016 draft, played the most defensive snaps (512) of his career last season, and could be a candidate for a surprisingly large free agent contract from another club.
Surprised with trevathon injury history and Kwitkaski played like a monster at end of year
Funny pace can move on pick plays like a beast but Trubisky who never gonna Win a super bowl they r entrenched with him
Pace should have been fired immediately after Patrick Mahomes won the Super Bowl. He set the Bears back 10 years by passing over Mahomes and Watson to trade UP a draft a milk toast guy who only played 13 games in college. But that’s the Bears for ya! The NFL will be gone soon anyway, so who cares. They can’t ignore CTE forever.
Quite a rant, chisoxcity
a good one though
Not really. He’s a white sux homer who doesn’t know his a$$ from a hole in the ground.
I thought Kwitkaski had shown more than enough to warrant a new contract. Instead the Bears have signed someone who is aging, injury prone and costs more.
Pace is obviously rolling the dice and hoping that the coming season everything will magically fall into place and the Bears will make a deep playoff run. Failure to do so would cost most GM’s their job, but this is the Bears.
Couldn’t agree more.
LOL @ the Bears – what a terrible decision (which was also partially based on the caste system). Trevethan was a solid player a few years ago but has not been good. Kwiatkoski is a player on the rise who served his racial apprenticeship and then proved to be one of the better players on the Bears defense last year.
Come over to castefootball.us for those of you who want to start questioning the status quo and the discrimination of white athletes.
Bears have gotten production from aging LBs in the past so this could be a good decision. If Trevathan was trying to rebound from a lower body injury rather than an elbow this would be a much more risky proposition.