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So you can easily name 9-19 better WR's than Jackson? He may not be in the top 5, but he is definitely in that next group of WR's and I would definitely consider him a top 10 talent at that position.

The $20 million is the signing bonus or "guaranteed money" pro-rated over the life of the contract, thus 20 / 5 = 4.

It depends on what the salary is each year. So they may sign him to a 5/40 with a 20 mil signing bonus. If his salaries were 2, 2, 4, 4, and 8 mil; then the cap hits would be: 6, 6, 8, 8, 12 mil with the bonus or guaranteed money ($4 mil per year) pro-rated over the life of the deal. In reality they are paying him $22 mil this year, but only $6 mil counts against the cap. After that point, they can release him at anytime, but would take a cap hit immediately for the remainder of the bonus that was not yet applied to the cap. So if Forte was released after year 3, they Bears would have a cap hit of $8 mil in year 4 without Forte, but would not incur anything in year 5. So to Forte, he could essentially double or triple his guaranteed money with a new deal compared to the $7.7 he is getting now. A new deal, with creative salaries also could reduce the cap hit for the first few years compared to the franchise value at RB.

I would think we are the most attractive location out of those three for a WR looking to play on a championship caliber team and with a franchise QB. Minnesota and Jacksonville both have question marks at QB and their teams are not really contenders.

Interesting to note that neither Jackson nor Bowe have been hit with the franchise tag yet.

Yes, Colston over Nicks.

I was just thinking of one of the two would be great. Then add someone like Carlson as TE and get a mid-tier FA for the other area of need (OL or WR) that you didn't fill and we would be set for the draft.

https://twitter.com/#/JayGlazer/status/176043156381515776 Wow, what an epic upgrade either of those guys would be.

How much of $7.7 is guaranteed? I am assuming it all is and that would be a 7.7 cap hit this year if they can't work out a long term deal.

They should have to play with 10 players on defense all year.

After the first round, it is a crapshoot to predict the draft. I doubt any of those picks will be correct. It is fun to look at the mocks, but looking back at past mocks, very few got many players right, especially after the first round - and before free agency. At this point, I am just hoping for BPA from a need area for all of our picks and with no injury risk or history (and no reaches or projects).

That would be a great acquisition.

Awesome news and more cap space! Yay! Everyone expects the Bears to be aggressive in Free Agency. Can't wait to see what happens this offseason.

Hopefully higher ticket prices means more spending on Free Agents.

I don't know how feasible that would be. Even if we miss on one of the Tier 1 Free Agents for a #1 WR, I still think we will pick up a WR via FA, but it might only be a #2. Then we draft a WR at #19 as our #1. Drafting two doesn't seem realistic with the other areas we need to address, especially with youth.

There are a bunch of workout warriors that blow up the combine and flop in the NFL. It shows more that he is lazy than anything.

Defensive Linemen Top 10 40-yard Dash Bruce Irvin, West Virginia, 4.50 seconds Shea McClellin, Boise State, 4.63 Nick Perry, USC, 4.64 Ronnell Lewis, Oklahoma, 4.68 Whitney Mercilus, Illinois, 4.68 Andrew Branch, Clemson, 4.70 Quinton Coples, North Carolina, 4.78 Fletcher Cox, Mississippi State, 4.79 Melvin Ingram, South Carolina, 4.79 Oliver Vernon, Miami, 4.80 Top five in three-cone drill Bruce Irvin, West Virginia, 6.70 seconds Melvin Ingram, South Carolina, 6.83 George Bequette, Arkansas, 6.90 Vincent Curry, Marshall, 6.90 Justin Francis, Rutgers, 7.05 Top five in short shuttle Irvin, 4.03 seconds Bequette, 4.07 Ingram, 4.18 Anton Blatnick, Oklahoma State, 4.20 Vaughn Meatoga, Hawaii, 4.21 Top 10 in vertical jump Nick Perry, USC, 38.5 inches Justin Sweezy, North Carolina, 36 Derrick Shelby, Utah, 35.5 Cameron Johnson, Virgina, 35 Chandler Jones, Syracuse, 35 Scott Solomon, Rice, 35 Melvin Ingram, South Carolina, 34.5 Markus Kuhn, North Carolina, 34.5 Kendall Reyes, Connecticut, 34.5 Olivier Vernon, Miami, 34.5 Top 10 in broad jump Perry, 10 feet, 4 inches Solomon, 10-4 Bruce Irvin, West Virginia, 10-3 Vernon, 10-2 Andre Branch, Clemson, 10-0 Jones, 10-0 Jonathan Massaquoi, Troy, 10-0 Shea McClellin, Boise State, 9-10 Whitney Mercilus, Illinois, 9-10 Brandon Lindsey, Pittsburgh, 9-9

40-yard Dash (LBs) Top 10 Marvin Kendricks, California, 4.47 seconds Zach Brown, North Carolina, 4.50 Luke Kuechly, Boston College, 4.58 Demario Davis, Arkansas State, 4.61 Nigel Bradham, Florida State, 4.64 Najee Goode, West Virginia, 4.64 Lavonte David, Nebraska, 4.65 Dont’a Hightower, Alabama, 4.68 James-Michael Johnson, Nevada, 4.68 Ricky Carder, TCU, 4.69 Top five in three-cone drill Nathan Stupar, Penn State, 6.84 seconds Tank Carder, TCU, 6.89 Chris Galippo, USC, 6.90 Luck Kuechly, Boston College, 6.92 Audie Cole, N.C. State, 6.96 Top five in short shuttle Brandon Marshall, Nevada, 4.09 seconds Galippo, 4.10 Kuechly, 4.12 Carder, 4.18 Mychal Kendricks, California, 4.19 Top 10 in vertical jump Marvin Kendricks, California 39.5 inches DeMario Davis, Arkansas State, 38.5 Luke Kuechly, Boston College, 38 Miles Burris, San Diego State, 37.5 Nigel Bradham, Florida State, 37 James-Michael Johnson, Nevada, 37 Tahir Whitehead, Temple, 37 Lavonte David, Nebraska, 36.5 Steven Johnson, Kansas, 36 Travis Lewis, Oklahoma, 36 Top 10 in broad jump Kendricks, 10 feet, 7 inches Davis, 10-4 Johnson, 10-4 Whitehead, 10-4 Kuechly, 10-3 Lewis, 10-2 Bradham, 10-1 Burris, 10-1 Ricky Carder, TCU, 10-1 Keenan Robinson, Texas, 10-0 Kuechly Top 5 in all 5 events.

Is he coming off an injury or is he injury prone?

WR 40 Times Michael Floyd 4.47 Kendall Wright 4.61 Mohamed Sanu 4.67 Nick Toon 4.54 AJ Jenkins 4.39 Juron Criner 4.68 Stephen Hill 4.36 Travis Benjamin 4.36 Chris Owusu 4.36 I was surprised to see Jenkins finish that fast. Yeah, Floyd's 40 probably just made him a Top 15 pick.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7615420/...ides-reach-deal Looks like Bowe is out of the picture.

WR Weigh-in: Michael Floyd 6-3, 220 Kendall Wright 5-10, 196 Alshon Jeffery 6-3, 216 Mohamed Sanu 6-2, 211 Nick Toon 6-2, 215 AJ Jenkins 6-0, 190 TY Hilton 5-10, 183 Juron Criner 6-3, 224

Pretty interesting not to see Finley in the top 10 for yards or receptions for Tight Ends.

It's amazing that the Giants won despite the 2nd worst O-Line in the league. It seems that some of these numbers don't reflect true output because Forte was leading the league in total yards before going down and Cutler was not getting sacked nearly as much as previous years.

I was thinking about that today, but that would essentially negate one of our options. We can just pay for a UFA AND draft someone at 19 (OL, WR, DL, DB), compared to just getting Wallace and no 1st rounder. We need at least two impact players, one from FA and one from the draft. Going the Wallace route would only give us one.