Edmunds was the Bears most productive tackler but appears to be a salary cap casualty so is looking for a trade prior to a potential release from the Bears. In the article it mentioned Edmunds has had over 100 tackles every season in the NFL between Buffalo and Chicago. Will be interesting to see where he lands.
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With that record, he will land somewhere.
How much eligibility does he have left?
Washington....
I really just want washington to be a team of hokies in the NFL.
This would have been a lock in the Snyder era. Overpay for a veteran at a position you have already overpaid a veteran.
To build a team of Hokies in the NFL we need to get back to putting a lot more dudes in the NFL.
Can you explain to someone who doesn't watch/follow nfl why it matters if he's traded vs released?
A couple benefits to being traded. Locked in early rather than at the whim of when the Bears release him. It keeps him on his existing contract or a renegotiated contract, including any remaining guaranteed money and benefits, when he transfers to the new team, ensuring financial stability and continued work in the NFL. The release dates can drag on when teams are playing with what's best for salary cap which can cause guys missing opportunities with teams with needs. Similar to why we see some star NCAA guys go in the portal as early as possible to lock in their new spot with the best deal available.
Another thing, since he is seeking the trade, his agent can approach the teams he wants to be on to try to work out the basics of a deal and bring that to the Bears.
A trade allows the Bears to pay another team for more cap space, Edmunds retains his contractual salary of $15M in 2026, and the receiving team can get Edmunds for well below his $15M salary if they have the cap space. In the NFL, teams cannot trade cap space for money directly. But, they can trade a player with a high-cap hit for draft picks or a player with a low-cap hit. Furthermore, a team that trades away a player can partially pay for a player's salary but the salary cap hit goes to the receiving team.
Edmunds's salary info is here: Sportstrac Edmunds.
Edmunds is in his final contract year and has a salary cap hit of $17.5M but is only to be paid $15M. The remaining $2.5 of the salary cap hit is related to signing bonuses already paid. The Bears can gain $15M in salary cap space by trading or cutting him.
A team that has the cap space can get Edmunds on the cheap payment wise. Hypothetically, for example, the Bears can trade Edmunds to a team that has $15M in cap space to take on Edmunds's contract. In the trade agreement, the Bears can agree to pay $7.5M of that $15M salary. The receiving team would get Edmunds and only have to pay him $7.5M, but would take on the full $15M cap hit.
Edmunds would want to do this if he believes his $15M salary in 2026 is better than what he can get as free agent.
This works when (1) the player wants to keep his current contract, (2) the receiving team has the cap space, and (3) the trading team is so cap-strapped that they are willing to pay a team for cap space and trade away a talented player for draft picks or players with low cap hits.
How does the $7.5M, from your example, impact either team's caps? In baseball, I know that money paid on a contract by a trading team does go into the receiving team's luxury tax. At least I think it does. Going by that example, the Bears would still have a $10M cap hit and the receiving team would only take a $7.5M cap hit.
Otherwise, it just seems like paying down a contract for trade purposes would just be a cap-dodging payment. You're paying a player money that doesn't go toward your cap.
My understanding that under the NFL rules, the $7.5M doesn't impact either team caps because the team responsible for contract takes the cap hit. It's essentially the Bears giving the receiving team the $7.5M, and the receiving team paying Edmunds $15M. So, the receiving team has $15M cap-hit and the Bears get a $15M cap saving.
It's ultimately a weird scenario that does not really happen because receiving teams don't want to take on the cap hit and trade away a pick/player. Maybe it happens here because Edmunds is uber talented. That's also why the Bears are giving Edmunds the opportunity to seek a trade as opposed to leading the effort themselves, make his agent put in the effort to see if there is an appetite for his cap hit.
If you look at available cap space for 2026, and considering roster building through free agency and the draft, maybe 7 teams can easily take a $15M cap hit without dropping salaries: Sportrac NFL Cap Space.
I could see him land in Carolina. Dan Morgan said in a presser yesterday that the franchise has absolutely lost their way in recent years on what their defensive identity has always been, and that's strong LB play that completely takes away the middle of the field.
Edmunds would be a good first step for them, and they have cap space to do it.
I wouldn't mind seeing him alongside the Blessed Demon in Atlanta, though I'm sure they would prefer to resign Ellis, due to his pass rush skills.
Well I was right that Carolina threw stupid money at a LB, but I missed the mark on which LB it was going to be
Unfortunately Jags ain't in the market. Need more Hokies that are roster locks.
My Cowboys need linebackers.
Gross, no.
I'm here representing the Vikings - We get Edmunds, you get a solid former first-round draft pick QB to backup Williams.
"I'm here representing the Vikings"
I'm sorry man. One of the reasons I lost interest in and stopped watching almost all sports was growing up a long-suffering Viking's fan. I spoke to God one day and he told me something like: Chris, I will never allow your teams to win. Why do you keep putting yourself through this? Just give up.
For reference, my teams (when I paid attention to any professional team sports were):
Minnesota Vikings - 0 Super Bowl wins ever - and 100% chance they will remain at 0 as long as I am alive
New York Mets - 1 WS championship when I was something like 4 days old followed by >50 years with 1 championship
New York Rangers - 1 Stanley Cup in ~75 years, although I was not alive for the first ~20 years of that stretch
Never had an interest in basketball, so no favorite team.
You can add in Virginia Tech with no team championships in >150 years. Oh man, I hope people don't try to sacrifice me as the reason VT cannot ever win a team championship.
Well, Yale did win in hockey a few years ago, so I guess VT has a theorical chance to win one while I am still alive.
Where did I stash those pitchforks and torches again...
This is me! I was a soon to be ten year old on January 11, 1970 when the Kansas City Chiefs played the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV. That's when I became a Vikings fan. I had posters in my room of the Purple People Eaters; Carl Eller, Alan Page, Jim Marshall, Gary Larson. I remember watching games on TV at the old Metropolitan Stadium where both teams were on the same sideline (split at the 50). Coach Bud Grant would not allow heaters on the Vikings sidelines.
Oh how I wish the Vikings could win a Super Bowl!!! (or at least get back to one) lol
Thankfully, was too young to remember the Chiefs one. But the Dolphins and Raiders sucked worse than a Penn State-UVa championship game for me. Somehow, I don't recall anything from the Steelers one. Remember crying to my dad "make them stop" when someone was beating the crap out of the Vikings in one of those Super Bowls.
Since I stopped watching and paying any attention to the NFL 20 years ago, my life has gotten much better.
Baltimore Orioles and Baltimore Colts fan....
Baltimore lost their Football team team. 12 years in purgotory.
Orioles had to live with the exaltation of their finest players, Mark Belanger, Jim Palmer, The Ironman...
Was it 1985 when they started the season 0-23?
It had to be later than that. I was at Tech that year. Guessing it was 87.
Looked it up and whoops, it was 1988. Not surprisingly, several people I knew/friends/1 roommate were Orioles' fans, so I got to hear all about it.
"The season is most notable for the 0-21 start that lasted from April 4 to April 28"
The season I was thinking was '88.
I was in schools in San Diego when this was going on.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BAL/1988.shtml
0-20 start.
So, it proves the point even further, arguing over multiple similar collapse.
I read this as you spent at least 12 years in college.
Doh! Fixed.
Vikings and Orioles fan here. I barely remember 98, I was 6, but almost every other Vikings heartbreak since I remember vividly. I remember when the Minneapolis miracle happened my brother (who's the reason I am a Vikings fan) was convinced we were winning the Super Bowl at home and I told him all it meant was we were going to shit the bed against the eagles because good things like that don't happen to us. I was right.
The orioles have been bad the majority of my life. 2014 was the most fun I've ever had as an orioles fan, and I really thought they were going to win it all. That ALCS crushed me. 2023 was a close second in terms of joy but then they got swept in the ALDS..
But, largely, at this point in my life between the Vikings, orioles, and Hokies, I'm pretty numb to sports. I still watch when I can because I enjoy it, I just don't have high expectations for any of them. I try to tell myself that one day one of them will win it all, and that will make the pain worth it haha.
I've always called myself a long-suffering Falcons fan. We don't need to go into why Falcons fans suffer. It's still too soon. It always will be.
The misery continues. =^/
Seriously!?!! Browns fans would give up a nut to have the Vikings results since 1999.
...or the same starting QB more than two seasons in row. Think you are on 40 starters since 99.
Hope he signs with the Commanches
Wasn't able to find a trade partner so Bears are releasing him.
Thats a bummer
I'm sure we can make this work, somehow. Anybody know a Hokie-friendly judge? ;^)
I'm sure Joe is happy about this!
GGC too i bet!
Pssh. Like you have any idea how he'd feel about anything.
The older i get the truer this is
Big BLUE! #LetsGoHokies
23.7 million guaranteed is nothing to sneeze at either.
got a bigger contract than the Bears gave Devin Bush, who was considered a top LB free agent
Dammit. Tremaine Edmunds is dead to me now.
I have faith that the Giants will be able to waste his talent.
Thanks for the pep talk!
The implication here being that you like the Hokies less than *checks notes* the dallas cowboys?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Well, to be fair, I've been cowboys fan 15 years lo ger than I've been a hokie. I love Edmunds as a hokie. Not so much when he's a giant.
Tim Settle signed with the Commies.
Return to the District
Ashburn is not the district
Won't be in Ashburn much longer or Maryland is my understanding of the new stadium deal. Practice facility will be tied to the new stadium from what I understand. Ashburn probably gets sold for about $500M for two more data centers.
$500M?, only that low if they go to a single buyer. they can divide the land up and sell it for probably around $2B.
Its much smaller than the GW complex and that just sold to Amazon for less. I think it was like ~$470m. There would be offset restrictions on the Commanders property with the creek that runs behind it.
l was in a deal for around $600M for a small piece of land in ashburn until it feel through. It was underpriced per sq ft but thats only because it had to sell as one sale to one buyer and their arent a lot with $600m around