Top Sports News (Source: ESPN NFL, Adam Schefter)
Khalil Mack traded to the Chicago Bears.
- The Chicago Bears reached a record-setting six-year, $141 million extension with Khalil Mack on Saturday.
- Chicago had acquired the pass-rusher from the Oakland Raiders earlier in the day and later announced the extension but did not release the terms.
- Mack becomes the highest-paid defensive player in NFL history. The deal, which averages $23.5 million per season, includes $90 million in guaranteed money and $60 million at signing.
NFL.com Report on Khalil Mack traded to Chicago:
- The Bears gave up first-round picks in 2019 and 2020, a third-round pick in 2020 and a sixth-round pick in 2019 to acquire Mack earlier Saturday. In return, the Bears also received s a second-round pick in 2020 and a conditional fifth-round pick in 2020.
- The contract eclipses the record for a defensive player set just one day earlier, when the Los Angeles Rams signed Aaron Donald to a six-year extension worth $135 million, including $87 million guaranteed.
- The $90 million in guaranteed money for Mack, the 2016 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, is about $20 million more than Raiders quarterback Derek Carr is being paid.
- This is the second time the Bears have traded two first-round picks for a player in the past decade. In April 2009, Chicago acquired quarterback Jay Cutler from the Denver Broncos. The Bears sent two first-rounders, a third-round pick and quarterback Kyle Orton to Denver for Cutler and a fifth-round pick in the swap.
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- Mack is the fourth player to be traded after winning a Defensive Player of the Year award, along with Jason Taylor (traded in 2008), Pat Swilling (1993) and Keith Millard (1992), according to ESPN Stats & Information. At age 27, Mack is the youngest of that group at the time of being traded.
- The No. 5 overall pick of the 2014 draft, Mack missed training camp. He also stayed away from the Raiders' voluntary offseason training program and held out of the team's mandatory three-day minicamp in June. Raiders coach Jon Gruden, hired in January, had yet to meet Mack.
- Oakland exercised the fifth-year option on Mack's contract last summer, worth $13.846 million. If he had played under those terms this season, the Raiders could have used a franchise tag on Mack in 2019.
- Mack joins a Bears defense that includes No. 8 overall pick Roquan Smith, who had his own holdout this offseason before signing his rookie contract, and 2016 No. 9 overall pick Leonard Floyd. Chicago ranked ninth in points allowed and 10th in yards allowed last season.
- Mack made league history in 2015 by being named first-team All-Pro at both outside linebacker and defensive end. After being honored as the league's best defender in 2016, Mack had a little bit of a letdown in 2017 -- his 10.5 sacks were his fewest since his rookie year, and he was not named to the All-Pro team.
- Still, he has 40.5 career sacks, and his 185.5 quarterback pressures since coming into the league in 2014 lead the NFL in that time frame, according to Pro Football Focus.
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