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But the way he played last year, I think the Bears would feel good about that.

That'd be their guy, right?

That was the first first-round pick of the Ryan Poles era.

You'd have to be happy to even be having this conversation.

Yeah, it's an interesting conversation too, Leila, because you talk about the cap number.

He's going to be a very relatively cheap player this year if he continues to play under that rookie contract.

Right.

If you give him the franchise tag, that's a huge cap hit for that one year that he has the tag.

The fifth-year option is a big hit for that specific year.

If you can work out a contract now, you can kind of massage those cap hits so they get higher.

Yeah.

We haven't even talked about the left tackle possibility, right?

Do the Bears want to try him out over there this season if you're his representation?

You know, I think right tackle versus left tackle is not what it used to be, but, you know, you could have some money conversations there.

So, again, I think a lot of these things are in the category of good problems to have.

It is good that their first-round pick from 2023 has played up to the point where we can have these conversations.

And as you said, they're not in a rush.

But the one thing to think about for them when you talk about cash flow is after the 2026 season, you start talking about guys that you drafted in 2024, and that includes the quarterback.

Mm-hmm.

So, you know, these are all things that they have to think about.