NFL free agency: Chase Daniel signs with Chicago Bears
By Matt Conner
The Chicago Bears have won the sweepstakes, if you can call it that, for back-up quarterback Chase Daniel who signed him to a voidable two-year deal.
The Chicago Bears and the Kansas City Chiefs were two of the team often linked to free agent quarterback Chase Daniel. In the end, the Bears won out by offering the current New Orleans Saints back-up a two-year deal worth a reported $10 million.
Daniel had been a back-up most recently behind Drew Brees, but he’d also spent 3 years recently playing in Andy Reid’s system for the Kansas City Chiefs behind Alex Smith. Matt Nagy is the Chicago Bears new head coach, and was Daniel’s quarterbacks coach during that time, which provided the reasons why both teams were considered as a potential landing spot for Nagy.
Ian Rapoport has a good layout of Daniel’s new deal.
The #Bears are expected to sign QB Chase Daniel to a 2-year deal worth $10 million, source said. He gets $7 million guaranteed and... it’s voidable after 1 year. That’s huge, in case something happens and he becomes this year’s Nick Foles. He’d be a free agent in 2019.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 14, 2018
Daniel gives the Bears the top back-up available on the open market to place behind Mitch Trubisky, the second-year starter. For the Chiefs, that means that both quarterback slots behind Patrick Mahomes remains open for business, an important spot considering that Mahomes has a single game of meaningful NFL experience to his name. Tyler Bray is rumored to return, but he has less experience that Mahomes even after five years in the NFL. Expect the Chiefs to make a move for some veteran in the coming days and weeks.