{"id":506622,"date":"2026-03-06T05:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506622\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:19:07","slug":"bears-will-release-lb-tremaine-edmunds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506622\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears will release LB Tremaine Edmunds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bears are releasing linebacker Tremaine Edmunds, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>Edmunds, who turns 28 in May, had no guaranteed money left on his contract, and his release will save the team $15 million. The Bears had allowed Edmunds to seek a trade this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>After five seasons with the Bills, who drafted him in the first round in 2018, Edmunds signed a four-year, $72 million contract with the Bears as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>He has started 119 games and has made at least 100 tackles in each of his eight seasons, totaling 900 tackles in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Edmunds made the Pro Bowl in 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys are among the teams seeking linebackers as they switch to the 3-4 under new defensive coordinator Christian Parker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bears are releasing linebacker Tremaine Edmunds, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports. Edmunds, who turns 28 in May,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-506622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}