Bears Grant LB Tremaine Edmunds Permission To Seek Trade

According to Brad Biggs, the Bears have granted LB Tremaine Edmunds permission to seek a trade. 

The veteran linebacker has come up as a potential cut candidate since he’s due $15 million this upcoming year with no guarantees. 

Chicago likely wouldn’t be asking for much in a trade as a result, and this could be a last-ditch attempt to get something instead of letting him leave for nothing, although he has been a solid player for the Bears’ defense. 

Edmunds, 27, was drafted by the Bills in the first round out of Virginia Tech in 2018. He signed a four-year, $12.659 million rookie deal with the Bills following the 2018 NFL Draft that included a $7.286 million signing bonus.

Buffalo exercised the fifth-year option for Edmunds, which paid him $12.726 million in 2022. He later signed a four-year, $72 million contract with the Bears that includes $50 million guaranteed. 

He’s entering the final year of that deal and set to make a base salary of $15 million in 2026. 

In 2025, Edmunds appeared in 13 games and recorded 112 total tackles, three tackles for loss, one sack, one fumble recovery, four interceptions and nine pass deflections.

We’ll have more on Edmunds as the news is available.