Chris Emma

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.

So for Ryan Pulse to say that, I think there's a couple pieces here that he's establishing.

Number one, they already have...

Not the best amount of cap flexibility to work with, as we mentioned.

And then number two, that contract extension, I wonder if it comes a little bit earlier than we're used to seeing.

Because remember, Caleb Williams was a guy who wanted to do things at this combine differently.

He wanted to structure his contract differently.

Remember how long it took for he and the Bears to come to an actual contractual agreement.

So I wonder if that comes into play here sooner than we may think.

I'm not saying like this year.

But I'm saying perhaps maybe before even the fifth-year option gets discussed.