Ian Rapoport reports that Bears are matching the four-year, $56 million offer sheet the Packers signed CB Kyle Fuller to on Friday.
- According to Rapoport, the contract includes $18 million guaranteed, which happens to be $5 million more than he would have made under the transition tag.
Chicago elected to use the transition tag on Fuller rather than the franchise tag, but it opened up the possibility that another team could step in and make things complicated for them.
Fuller, 26, is a former first-round pick of the Bears back in 2014. He played out the final year of his four-year, $9,687,002 contract and is now in position to be an unrestricted free agent for the first time in his NFL career.
It’s worth mentioning that the Bears declined Fuller’s fifth-year option last year that would have paid him $8,526,000 for the 2018 season.
In 2017, Fuller appeared in all 16 games for the Bears and recorded 69 tackles, two interceptions and 22 pass defenses. Pro Football Focus had him rated as the No. 23 cornerback out of 120 qualifying player.
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