{"id":468316,"date":"2023-11-04T19:47:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T23:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=468316"},"modified":"2023-11-04T19:47:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T23:47:20","slug":"sweat-agrees-4-year-98-million-dollar-deal-with-bears","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sweat-agrees-4-year-98-million-dollar-deal-with-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweat agrees 4-year, 98 million dollar deal with Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/montez-sweat\/\">Montez Sweat<\/a> gave positive answers about a new long-term extension before the player\u2019s debut vs. the New Orleans Saints tomorrow.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bears?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bears<\/a> edge Montez Sweat has agreed to a massive 4-year extension worth $98M in new money \u2014 $24.5M average per year. He gets $72,865,360 guaranteed with the total deal being worth $105M.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was done by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KlutchSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KlutchSports<\/a> agents Damarius Bilbo &amp; Kelton Crenshaw. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aRQQdGROZZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/aRQQdGROZZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1720849272806002917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The edge rusher is inking a 4-year, 98 million dollar extension. His new contract features 72 million dollars in guarantees as it is also front-loaded, and Sweat will get about 56 million dollars by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Bears, a few days ago, sent a 2024 2nd-round selection to Commanders for the edge rusher, who is competing in the final season of his rookie deal.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago GM Ryan Poles shared on Wednesday that the organization was working on an extension for Montez and is very close to making it official.<\/p>\n<p>Sweat is the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Chicago player to ink an extension this week, as DT <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/andrew-billings\/\">Andrew Billings<\/a> signed a 2-year, 8.5 million dollar extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears and Montez Sweat gave positive answers about a new long-term extension before the player\u2019s debut vs. the New Orleans Saints [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":468317,"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":[18136,21979,17873],"acf":{"announce":"Montez and Chicago are finalizing a 4-year contract extension.","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\/468316"}],"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=468316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468329,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468316\/revisions\/468329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468316"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=468316"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=468316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}