{"id":514267,"date":"2026-03-10T03:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514267\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:55:07","slug":"source-braxton-jones-bears-reach-1-year-deal-worth-up-to-10m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514267\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: Braxton Jones, Bears reach 1-year deal worth up to $10M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left tackle <a data-player-guid=\"2158a1e3-7d22-6fa7-72e9-8370d09f1ab7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4251007\/braxton-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braxton Jones<\/a> has agreed to return to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"19d73366-b5a5-cca2-a176-a2c024ce0bb3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a> on a one-year deal worth up to $10 million, a source told ESPN&#8217;s Jeremy Fowler.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, 26, was the first offensive lineman drafted by Bears general manager Ryan Poles. The former FCS product from <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a1b94182-f48d-e796-47d4-acbdb5dc5d55\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/253\/southern-utah-thunderbirds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Utah<\/a> was selected in the fifth round in 2022 and started 17 games at left tackle as a rookie. Injuries in 2023 and 2024 limited Jones to 23 games combined over two seasons, all of which he started at left tackle.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>Jones entered a contract year in 2025 coming off a season-ending ankle injury at the end of his third NFL season. While he rehabbed, the Bears drafted <a data-player-guid=\"3e8329b5-fb63-3554-a9bc-84a2b4ef35e3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4432595\/ozzy-trapilo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ozzy Trapilo<\/a> with the No. 56 pick, which signaled a shift along the offensive line and foreshadowed the offseason&#8217;s biggest position battle.<\/p>\n<p>Jones competed with Trapilo, <a data-player-guid=\"9620f0fe-9968-3c7e-92be-dde944065702\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4883090\/kiran-amegadjie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kiran Amegadjie<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"9a01bafb-c4a7-3134-a8f5-eb6234aaa59f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/5125873\/theo-benedet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Theo Benedet<\/a> in training camp and ended up winning the left tackle job to start the 2025 season. He started four games at left tackle before being benched before halftime in Chicago&#8217;s 25-24 win at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b18540eb-6f2b-534c-e7f9-9bd930518da9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/lv\/las-vegas-raiders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was supplanted at left tackle by Benedet and logged 12 snaps over two games the rest of the season. He allowed 15 pressures and two sacks in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Courtney Cronin contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Left tackle Braxton Jones has agreed to return to the Chicago Bears on a one-year deal worth up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-514267","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\/514267","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=514267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}