Bears & G Kyle Long Agree To Restructured Contract

Update:

Field Yates reports that Bears G Kyle Long agreed to reduce his base salary to $2.5 million as of his restructured contract. This, in turn, reduced his cap hit to $5.6 million for the 2019 season.

Ian Rapoport adds that Long can make the $2.5 million back in incentives and the Bears turned his 2020 season into a team option while eliminating the 2021 year of his contract.

rad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune reports that the Bears and veteran G Kyle Long have agreed to a restructured contract that will result in some cap room for Chicago and ensure Long remains in Chicago for the 2019 season.

Long announced via his Twitter account that he’s a “Bear for life.”

https://twitter.com/Ky1eLong/status/1100427122617794562

Long missed half of the season with a foot injury before being designated to return in December.

There was some talk this offseason that Long was an obvious candidate to accept a pay cut, given the injury issues he’s dealt with over the past few years. 

Long, 30, is a former first-round pick of the Bears back in 2013. He was entering the fourth year of his six-year, $50.358 million contract that included $30 million and stands to make a base salary of $6.9 million for the 2019 season.

In 2018, Long appeared in eight games for the Bears.