Lawrence Holmes

If it is,

you still have an exceptional playmaker, but you don't necessarily have the wide receiver that a lot of the offensive minds in the sport would necessarily value at being 23 mil plus over the life of what remains on his deal to trade for not only him,

but for that current contract value.

That was a part of the value of getting DJ Moore here when they did.

The contract value was pristine.

Now you're paying him like he's in that upper crust of true wide receiver, and that's not what he's ever been in the sport, but he's a really good playmaker.

I think it's a particular offensive scheme, a particular offensive mind that looks at that contract and says, yeah, we like that value for what that guy is.

How would you value Tyson Bajent if you were the Bears?

He seems to me to be a guy who has more value, who should have more value to the Bears than on the open market.

You got to think about it.

He's had, what, four starts back in his rookie season as an NFL quarterback.

So a lot of the evaluation of Tyson Bajent is based off of the wow factor of an undrafted quarterback that was able to vault into being the number two QB in Chicago every season of his career and look competent.

As an NFL starter, and the phrase that Ben Johnson used the other day, calling him one of the top 32 quarterbacks in the league.

I disagree with Ben.

I think that's essentially sort of a blanket way that in football parlance it means he can be a starting quarterback in this league.

If Ben was forced to do a power ranking, I don't know that...

QB 40, something like that.

And I think Ben would probably, if he did it, he would probably write it up more like that.

But I think that's just his way of saying, I think he's capable of being a starter in this league.

He's worthy of doing that around this point in his career.