Montez Sweat

LAKE FOREST, Ill. – Montez Sweat turned a lot of heads when he joined the Bears last season and sparked a defensive resurgence. Earlier this week, however, defensive coordinator Eric Washington said Sweat did something at training camp that he can’t recall seeing ever before in his 17 years of coaching experience. Sweat went over to the offensive line and…

The Bears are confident that Montez Sweat will be good to go by the time the Titans come to Chicago for Week 1. The star defensive end has missed nearly two weeks of work with an undisclosed injury, but defensive coordinator Eric Washington confirmed on Tuesday that Sweat was able to return to practice in a limited fashion for individual…

The Bears have improved their roster nearly across the board as they’ve turned the page from rebuilders to postseason hopefuls, but a group of football data analysts believes one important position group is lagging behind. On Tuesday PFF released its rankings of the best defensive line units in the NFL, and they put the Bears at No. 27 out of…

When the NFL schedule is released, we all hunt for storylines. How will the bye week affect the season? Will there be any holiday games? How many primetime appearances or marquee matchups against top-tier quarterbacks? And of course, will any players have opportunities to exact revenge upon their former teams? That’s what we’re looking at here. These are some...

Montez Sweat made a bold claim about the 2024 NFL season, and it should get Bears fans fired up. “I’m telling you right now, I’m not losing to Green Bay this year,” Sweat said on the “Green Light Show with Chris Long,” produced by Yote House Media. “I can’t do it. I can’t do it, man. I’m not losing...

As the Bears look to finish off their rebuilt defense, the thought of playing alongside Montez Sweat appeals to the draft’s top edge rushers.

Montez Sweat finished the NFL season having done something no one has ever done before; he led two teams in sacks this season. Sweat finished with 6.0 sacks with the Bears and 6.5 sacks for the Commanders, leading both teams by the season’s end. After Sweat’s 6.0 sacks, Justin Jones has 4.5 sacks and Yannick Ngakoue finished with 4.0 sacks….

Sweat has been a force ever since he arrived from Washington

A week after Montez Sweat was on the field for just 63 percent of the Bears’ defensive snaps, the star edge rusher saw his workload and impact increase in the win over the Vikings.

Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles says that he spoke to head coach Matt Eberflus about his usage of defensive end Montez Sweat following last week’s loss to the Detroit Lions.

When a team blows a 12-point lead with less than five minutes to play, the game is going to be scrutinized. When the team that blew the 12-point lead has a history of letting wins slip away, the scrutiny will intensify. So, as people have dug into the Bears’ 31-26 loss against the Lions in Week 11 people have started…

Montez Sweat was off the field for several key plays during the Bears’ meltdown in Detroit, and he played just 39 total snaps in the loss due to the “rotation.” The Bears have to fix that and get Sweat playing the same percentage of snaps as other star edge rushers across the NFL.

Montez Sweat has quickly made a name for himself in Chicago. Last week against the Saints, the Bears newest addition generated a 25% pass rush win rate against All-Pro and Pro-Bowl tackles — his highest mark of the season. This week, Sweat created eight quarterback pressures, the most single-game pressures for a Chicago Bear since Robert Quinn in Week 13…

One of the risks the Bears took on when they signed Montez Sweat to a long-term extension is his ability to play without All-Star talent across from him. With the Commanders, he played all but one season without Chase Young — one of the league’s best pass-rushing talents — across from him. That isn’t to say, however, that Sweat always…

When the Bears sent a second round pick to the Commanders to bring in defensive end Montez Sweat at Tuesday’s NFL trade deadline many fans hoped it would give the team the spark it needed on the defensive line. For a year and a half the Bears have had the worst pass rush in the NFL, so adding a...

Just days after acquiring edge rusher Montez Sweat from the Washington Commanders, the Chicago Bears are locking him up to a long-term deal, according to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network.

The Montez Sweat trade for the Bears opened up a new discourse hours after that trade. Why not Chase Young? MORE: Why Bears traded for Montez Sweat, not Chase Young, and why they didn’t wait for free agency If you’re like me, you definitely wondered why the Bears paid a pretty penny for Sweat while the 49ers got away...

Just before the NFL trade deadline, the Commanders traded their star edge rusher, Montez Sweat, to the Bears for a 2024 second-round pick. On Wednesday, the Commanders said goodbye to Sweat. “We really appreciate everything Montez did for us,” head coach Rob Rivera said to the media on Wednesday. “A heck of a football player. … We made the decision…

The Bears announced Montez Sweat will wear No. 98 for them on Wednesday. Originally, rookie Gervon Dexter Jr. was No. 98, but he changed to No. 99 when Trevis Gipson was cut from the roster. That left No. 98 open for the Bears’ newest edge rusher. Sweat wore No. 90 for the Commanders. But the Commanders traded him to the…

Montez Sweat has been a Bear for 24 hours, so he hasn’t thought about a long-term future in Chicago. But he has a list of things he’ll consider before deciding.