{"id":453817,"date":"2023-08-04T05:17:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T09:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=453817"},"modified":"2023-08-04T05:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T09:17:29","slug":"ngakoue-inks-1-year-10-5-million-dollar-contract-with-bears","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ngakoue-inks-1-year-10-5-million-dollar-contract-with-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngakoue inks 1-year, 10.5 million dollar contract with Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent DE Yannick Ngakoue and Chicago Bears have agreed to a 1-year, 10.5 million dollar deal with 10 million dollars in guaranteed money; his agent confirmed the news to the media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bears?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bears<\/a> are signing former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Colts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Colts<\/a> star pass-rusher Yannick Ngakoue to a 1-year, $10.5M deal, sources say, giving them a weapon off the edge they\u2019ve been seeking. Ngakoue has never played for Matt Eberflus, but he\u2019s played in his system before. It should be seamless. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kbj8qAUnRx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kbj8qAUnRx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1687276606446866432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chicago will be the defensive end 5<sup>th<\/sup> franchise since the beginning of the 2020 campaign. Yannick had at least 8 sacks in every campaign of his 7-year career in the league and finished a 9-5 sack campaign with the Colts.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago wanted to add a player to that position since the beginning of the off-season. In the past campaign, the Bears were led in sacks by \u00a0Jaquan Brisker with 4. The NFL team from Chicago pressured opposing QBs on 22% of pass plays \u2013 only Atlanta Falcons did worst in the past NFL season.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago\u2019s 20 sacks in the past season were the fewest in the National Football League.<\/p>\n<p>The new Bears defensive end has 65 sacks in his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent DE Yannick Ngakoue and Chicago Bears have agreed to a 1-year, 10.5 million dollar deal with 10 million dollars in guaranteed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":453818,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17002,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18136,17873,20757],"acf":{"announce":"Yannick is landing in Chicago.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453817"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=453817"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=453817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}