{"id":480074,"date":"2024-03-11T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T18:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480074"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T18:12:01","slug":"bears-to-ink-rb-swift-to-3-year-almost-25-million-dollar-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bears-to-ink-rb-swift-to-3-year-almost-25-million-dollar-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears to ink RB Swift to 3-year, almost 25 million dollar deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears are giving RB D&#8217;Andre Swift a 3-year, 24.5 million dollar contract, featuring almost 15.5 million guaranteed, agent Trevon Smith shared with the media today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">David Montgomery was drafted by the Bears.<br \/>\nD&#8217;Andre Swift was drafted by the Lions.<\/p>\n<p>And now, they&#8217;ve swapped teams.<\/p>\n<p>Which player would you rather have in your backfield? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5fjpriT4Zb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5fjpriT4Zb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1767230467953303845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Eagles acquired D\u2019Andre from the Detroit Lions in the past offseason for a 2025 4<sup>th<\/sup>-round selection and an exchange of 7-th round selections, marking a return home for the Philly born player. The running back went on to set career highs in rushing attempts (229) and yards (1,049) and made played at his 1<sup>st<\/sup> Pro Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Swift appeared in 16 regular-campaign matches \u2013 his best in the NFL since he was drafted.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;Andre was 1 of just 6 RBs with at least 1,000 rushing yards and 35 receptions despite playing alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/a-j-brown\/\">A.J. Brown<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/devonta-smith\/\">DeVonta Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round selection out of Georgia, he has 2,729 rushing yards and 23 TDs in his 4 campaigns in the National Football League.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">RB D\u2019Andre Swift to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bears?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Decisive with the ball. Downhill speed. Vision to find daylight. And the pass catching ability elevates the Chicago backfield. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j317pUo2pt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/j317pUo2pt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Bowen (@MattBowen41) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattBowen41\/status\/1767225646223126833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears are giving RB D&#8217;Andre Swift a 3-year, 24.5 million dollar contract, featuring almost 15.5 million guaranteed, agent Trevon Smith shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480075,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17002,17324],"news_category":[16703,14084],"gn_keywords":[18136,19071,17873],"acf":{"announce":"Chicago to sign the running back D'Andre to 3 years contract.","video":["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\/480074"}],"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=480074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480087,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480074\/revisions\/480087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480074"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480074"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}