{"id":21806,"date":"2026-02-25T18:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=21806"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:35:34","slug":"bears-grant-lb-tremaine-edmunds-permission-to-seek-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=21806","title":{"rendered":"Bears grant LB Tremaine Edmunds permission to seek trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">The Bears have granted linebacker Tremaine Edmunds permission to seek a trade, Brad Biggs of the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BradBiggs\/status\/2026715176607547627?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reported on Wednesday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">reported on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Edmunds, who turns 28 in May, just finished the third year of the four-year, $72 million contract he signed with the Bears in 2023. In 13 games in 2025, he tallied 112 tackles, three tackles for a loss, four interceptions, nine pass deflections, and a sack. He played at a high level before a groin injury in November caused him to miss four games, upon which his production decreased. All told, he ranked sixth in the NFL in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballnetwork.com\/nfl-lb-rankings-impact\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PFSN\u2019s LB Impact Scoring;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PFSN\u2019s LB Impact Scoring<\/a> at 89.3.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Releasing or trading Edmunds would free up $15 million in cap space for the Bears if they do so before March 15. Should they wait until after then to unload him, it would free up $14 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/salary-cap-space\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Per OverTheCap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Per OverTheCap<\/a>, Chicago is over $4 million in the red, so creating cap space is a necessity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Even with the increase in NFL cap space since 2023, Edmunds remains the third-highest paid off-ball linebacker in average annual salary at $18 million. The question hasn\u2019t been whether he\u2019s a solid football player, but rather, if his level of play justifies that large of a salary. Given Chicago\u2019s choice to let him pursue a trade, the team seems to have revealed its answer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/bears-grant-lb-tremaine-edmunds-181114201.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bears have granted linebacker Tremaine Edmunds permission to seek a trade, Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune reported on Wednesday. Edmunds, who turns 28 in May, just finished the third year of the four-year, $72 million contract he signed with the Bears in 2023. In 13 games in 2025, he tallied 112 tackles, three &#8230; <a title=\"Bears grant LB Tremaine Edmunds permission to seek trade\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=21806\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bears grant LB Tremaine Edmunds permission to seek trade\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bears-grant-LB-Tremaine-Edmunds-permission-to-seek-trade.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21808,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21806\/revisions\/21808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}