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Yeah, Jeff King is the director.
He was a director.
He's now the assistant GM.
He was the director of player personnel.
And from what everybody says, and this seems to be the overall sentiment, a well-deserved promotion for him, for sure.
We continue our Combine press conference with Ryan Poles, brought to you by your local Hyundai dealers here on 104.3 The Score.
That's big.
So Ryan Pohl's acknowledging...
Caleb Williams' rookie contract.
Feinstein, as he mentioned, Matt Feinstein, is I think we just, what do we refer to him as?
The cap guy for the Bears?
He's going to help try to figure out how to make contracts more flexible so the Bears have more room.
The league year starts on March 11th, so they need more room under that salary cap right now.
According to overthecap.com, they're about $5 million over.
So that's important to keep of note here as well.
Additionally, that's how the Bears got Joe Tooney.
Joe Tooney, they had to move from Kansas City because they didn't have enough cap room to pay everyone.
And they had drafted offensive linemen that were on lower parts of the depth chart in high rounds, like the second round or the first round.
So because of that...
Yes, you know, you reap the benefits of it when you've got Caleb Williams on a rookie deal, but Patrick Mahomes' deal with the Chiefs does affect it.