Chicago Bears urged to cut D’Andre Swift and replace him with Super Bowl running back
The Chicago Bears are going to have to make some tough decisions when it comes to their roster for the 2026 NFL season. As it currently stands, the Bears are $11.5 million over the salary cap and do not have enough players under contract to fill their 53-man roster. What is more, they will need about $10 million to sign whoever they select in the 2026 NFL Draft.
Obviously, this means that there will be several players currently on the roster who will have their contracts restructured to create cap space. Others, unfortunately, will be cut altogether.
And while it remains to be seen which players the Bears choose to keep and which ones they will cut loose, one possible cap casualty is popular running back D’Andre Swift.
Chicago Bears urged to cut D’Andre Swift in favor of Kenneth Walker III
Swift is entering the final year of the three-year $24 million contract that he signed with Chicago prior to the 2024 NFL season. Should Chicago choose to released him this off-season, they would save $7.5 million on their cap.
And Max Dible of Heavy believes that, if they do that, they could replace him with Kenneth Walker III, who is set to start for the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX:
“Assuming a scenario in which the Bears released Swift, or traded him to a RB-needy team like the Kansas City Chiefs, and then signed Walker to a four-year deal at that number, Chicago would add just $1 million to its 2026 salary cap and secure the running back position for at least three seasons moving forward by pairing Walker with seventh-round rookie Kyle Monangai.”
The problem with this scenario, as Dible himself notes, is that signing Walker to his projected four-year $33.5 million contract, would actually add $1 million to their already stressed salary cap situation. That being said, Chicago could structure the possible deal so that his salary cap hit in 2026 is less while kicking some of the hit down the road.
Walker had 1,027 rushing yards and five touchdowns for the Seahawks. Swift, who is two years older than Walker, had 1,087 rushing yards and nine touchdowns for the Bears.
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