Khalil Mack

Mack, who played under current Chargers coach Brandon Staley in Chicago from 2017-2018, is under contract through the 2024 season. He is due $30.2 million in ...

In four seasons with the Bears, Mack racked up 36 sacks, 14 forced fumbles and six fumble recoveries. The Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Chargers have agreed to trade six-time Pro Bowl linebacker Khalil Mack to L.A. In return, the Bears receive the 48th overall pick in April’s draft and a 2023 sixth-round selection. He is due $30.2 million in 2022.

The Bears are finalizing a trade that will send Khalil Mack to the Chargers, sources told ESPN on Thursday. The Chargers are expected to send a 2022 ...

"I learned a lot more from Khalil Mack than he learned from me,'' Staley said at the time. Mack was an All-Pro that season with 12.5 sacks, helping Chicago go 12-4 and make the playoffs for the first time since 2010. The Chargers were in need of help along the defensive line. In that first season with Chicago, Mack finished with 12.5 sacks and in second place in the AP Defensive Player of the Year vote. They fired general manager Ryan Pace and coach Matt Nagy, replacing them with Poles and Matt Eberflus, respectively. They also both have exactly 12 strip sacks over the past five seasons, which is tied for sixth in the NFL.

At this point, I'm starting to think Roger Goodell needs to step in and stop all trades to the AFC West because that division is way too stacked. I mean, if he ...

If you need more Russell Wilson content in your life, then you can click here to check out a story on why the relationship between Wilson and the Seahawks broke down. According to ESPN.com, Kaepernick is in the best shape of his life. The Broncos' trade for Wilson marks the eighth time in NFL history that a starting quarterback has been traded by the team he won the Super Bowl with. (He led the Chiefs to the 1993 AFC title game.) None of them made it back to the Super Bowl, so Wilson has a chance to make history. The Cowboys defender refused to take a pay cut this offseason, which has put the team in an awkward position. He might still be in Pro Bowl form by the timeJustin Fieldsand Co. are (ideally) ready to contend, but instead, the Bears instantly save money while adding a solid Day 2 pick for the rebuild." That total includes a $17.75 million cap hit that the Chargers will have to take for the upcoming season. The Chargers head coach got his first NFL job back in 2017 when the Bears hired him as their linebackers coach after he had spent the prior four seasons as a DIVISION III ASSISTANT. Just last year, Staley credited Mack with helping him make that giant leap, "I learned a lot more from him than he learned from me," Staley said of his time with Mack. "I drew a lot of confidence being able to coach a guy like him. Not only was Mack voted first-team All-Pro, but he also finished second to Aaron Donald in the voting for Defensive Player of the Year. Thanks to the Wilson trade, Seattle will now be picking ninth overall and Edwards thinks the Seahawks are going to use that pick on a quarterback. I mean, if he wants to give the winner of the AFC West a bye to the Super Bowl, I think I'd be fine with that. Not only did we have the franchise tag deadline, but we saw two quarterbacks get traded in a span of 24 hours.

Former Bears GM Ryan Pace made the right move to acquire an elite pass rusher in his prime. The only regret is that — unlike the Rams with Aaron Donald ...

Fangio left to become the Broncos’ head coach, and his departure took much of the bite out of the entire defense under Chuck Pagano and Sean Desai. When Mack came to the Bears, he was known to most Bears fans as a devastating pass rusher. Mack, who will be traded to the Chargers for a 2022 second-round pick and 2023 sixth-round pick, was a stellar game-wrecker for one season. But it was still a deal worth making, one that Ryan Pace surely doesn’t regret and one the Bears would do all over again. The general manager who traded two first-round picks to the Raiders to acquire him in 2018 was just fired — just as Jerry Angelo was fired three years after acquiring Cutler and Phil Emery was fired three years after trading for Marshall. Former Bears GM Ryan Pace made the right move to acquire an elite pass rusher in his prime.

Bears fans aren't loving Ryan Poles' first move as GM to trade Khalil Mack to the Chargers.

For the most part, Bears fans understood the importance of trading Mack, who’s on the wrong side of 30, to acquire valuable draft capital. As you can imagine, the Mack trade sent Twitter into a frenzy. It’s a move that helps the Bears accumulate two draft selections — one additional pick in 2022 and in 2023 — and clears Mack’s massive cap hit of $30.15 million in 2022.

2016 NFL defensive player of the year Khalil Mack is set to be on the move once again. According to multiple reports, the Bears will deal the star defensive ...

He had 19 total tackles and six sacks in those seven games. 2016 NFL defensive player of the year Khalil Mack is set to be on the move once again. A foot injury limited Mack to just seven games in 2021, the first time he missed more than two games in an NFL season.

Mack has been the most impactful player on the Bears defense since 2018, when former G.M. Ryan Pace traded away two first-round picks, a third and a sixth to ...

Now the Bears will turn to Robert Quinn, who just set the Bears single-season franchise record for sacks, and Trevis Gipson to generate quarterback pressure. Mack has been the most impactful player on the Bears defense since 2018, when former G.M. Ryan Pace traded away two first-round picks, a third and a sixth to bring him to Chicago. In return, the Bears will receive a second-round draft pick and a sixth-round draft pick, per the reports.

At first glance, the deal to acquire Khalil Mack from the Bears for just a 2022 second-round pick and a sixth in next year's draft seems like an absolute ...

Again, all that math above is for the scenario in which the Charger aren’t able to restructure Mack’s current contract. That would put their remaining spending space at $17.706 million for the remainder of the offseason. We can surely expect some things to be moved around as I couldn’t imagine the Chargers believing they’re entire offseason could be given a passing grade simply by acquiring a 31-year edge rusher, no matter who it is. But, for the sake of convenience, let’s say his 2022 cap hit stays the same. However, the Chargers are reportedly taking on the entire remaining three years of his current contract, as well. However, the Chargers could potentially drop Mack’s 2022 hit to as little as $4.4 million.

The Chargers have agreed to acquire Khalil Mack in a trade with the Chicago Bears. The linebacker reunites with coach Brandon Staley, who had been an ...

Mack has three seasons remaining on a six-year extension he signed in September of 2018. Along with Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes and Las Vegas’ Derek Carr, Denver is trading for Russell Wilson. The Chargers struggled to consistently harass quarterbacks in their first year running Staley’s scheme. Adding a player of Mack’s ability — and one who understands the system — should expedite that evolution. Staley was Mack’s position coach with the Bears in 2018, a season during which Mack finished with 12½ sacks and earned his most recent All-Pro recognition. In the aftermath, Staley explained that defenses evolve on different timelines and noted that injuries led to many of the Chargers’ issues.

The Bears have an agreement in place to trade star outside linebacker Khalil Mack to the Chargers for a second-round draft pick this year and a ...

Mack was due to have a $30.15 million cap charge in 2022. The Bears gain draft capital as they begin to build around quarterback Justin Fields — and undo what, at the time, was considered a franchise-altering move. The trade cannot become official until the start of the league season next week and is contingent on Mack passing a physical.

The Chargers are giving Joey Bosa a formidable partner in Khalil Mack, the six-time Pro Bowl pass rusher the team is acquiring from the Bears.

The pair will look to provide pressure against a loaded group of AFC West passers that now includes the Kansas City Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes, Las Vegas Raiders' Derek Carr and Denver Broncos' Russell Wilson, whom the Seattle Seahawks agreed to deal on Tuesday. The Bears will receive a 2022 second-round pick and 2023 sixth-round selection, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported. In Los Angeles, Mack will team with four-time Pro Bowl selection Joey Bosa to give the Chargers one of the NFL's most formidable pair of pass rushers.

New Bears general manager Ryan Poles is starting his tenure with one massive trade of a star defensive player. According to numerous NFL insiders, the Bears ...

Follow The Bears Wire Podcast: Apple Podcasts He’s failed to eclipse 10 sacks on the season while Robert Quinn set a new single-season franchise sack record with 18.5 last year. Now, they own two second-round selections, including their own at 39th overall and the Chargers’ 48th overall.

Schefter confirms that the Chargers are sending a second-round in the upcoming draft and a sixth-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft in exchange for Mack. Chargers ...

Mack signed a six-year, $141 million extension that included $90 million guaranteed with Chicago. He was entering the fourth year of his deal and set to make a base salary of $12,050,000 in 2022. Pro Football Focus has Mack rated as the No. 32 edge defender out of 110 qualifying players. Mack, 30, is a former first-round pick of the Raiders back in 2014.

LAKE FOREST – Nearly three-and-a-half years after acquiring him in a blockbuster deal with Raiders, the Bears are now trading Khalil Mack to another AFC ...

Los Angeles was expected to pursue help up front this offseason, but few anticipated Mack, the former Defensive Player of the Year, being one of the team's top ...

But let's be honest: this is exactly the kind of move you make if you believe you're on the brink, and the Chargers, with an ascending franchise QB in Justin Herbert, rightfully do. Sure. There's a decent chance, even if Mack returns to full health opposite Bosa, his days of Defensive Player of the Year-level dominance are behind him. Already, the Chargers' odds of a 2022 playoff run have jumped as a result of Mack's arrival opposite Joey Bosa out west.

Mack is coming off an abbreviated season, but the former Raiders top-five pick and NFL Defensive Player of the Year is still regarded as one of the best pass ...

The 2016 Defensive Player of the Year, Mack went to Chicago in 2018 for a monster haul. Chicago will incur a $24MM dead-money charge, part of that coming because the team restructured Mack’s deal in 2019 and in 2021. The Broncos sent the Seahawks two firsts for Russell Wilson this week, giving them a much better shot to contend in the AFC West. The Bolts now have a top-tier edge tandem to throw at Wilson, Patrick Mahomes and Derek Carr. Mack, 31, played a major role in lifting the Bears to the 2018 NFC North title. Mack is coming off an abbreviated season, but the former Raiders top-five pick and NFL Defensive Player of the Year is still regarded as one of the best pass rushers in the game. Prior to last season, however, the three-time All-Pro had never missed more than two games in a season.

Khalil Mack is going back to the AFC West. Here's what the Bears acquired from the Chargers in exchange for the veteran pass rusher.

More specifically, Mack was set to have a $30.2 million cap hit for Chicago in 2022, by far the highest on the team. This deal also makes sense for the Bears, especially from a financial standpoint. Mack is an experienced sack artist and will create an elite tandem with Joey Bosa — provided that the two can stay healthy. He racked up 36 sacks in 53 games in Chicago and was named an AP All-Pro first-teamer during his first season with the team in 2018. This marks the second time Mack has been traded during his career. For the third consecutive day, NFL fans are being treated to a blockbuster trade.

Needless to say, the Los Angeles is excited to have the former Bears defensive end in town.

To top off all the excitement, the Chargers posted a video of Migos band member Offset. While the trade has yet to be officially announced, this is all but confirmation that Mack will indeed be playing in L.A. Needless to say, some of his future teammates in L.A. were excited to hear the 2016 defensive player of the year would be on the field playing with them come next season. Two of Khalil Mack’s potential new teammates in Los Angeles took to Twitter to react to reports of the impending trade on Thursday.

It'll take awhile to fully evaluate the Khalil Mack trade as a whole, but here is our initial grade of Bears GM Ryan Poles' first big move.

It’s better to trade a player too early than too late, although in my heart, I still feel the Bears could have gotten more of a mid-round pick instead of a sixth. But once I realized the Chargers would be picking up the rest of his contract and that the second-round pick coming back was for the 2022 draft and not 2023, I felt a bit better. Perhaps that was the break he needed to get healthy and is ready to pummel quarterbacks like the old days. It will take years to fully be able to evaluate the trade as a whole, but here is our initial grade of the move. The dust is starting to settle on the blockbuster trade that sent Khalil Mack from the Chicago Bears to the Los Angeles Chargers for a pair of draft picks. Outside of Justin Fields, Mack was the biggest acquisition the Bears have had in the last decade when he arrived from the Las Vegas Raiders for multiple first-round draft picks and more.

The Chicago Bears made a big splash on Thursday afternoon, reportedly trading star linebacker Khalil Mack to the Los Angeles Chargers, and now we're ...

According to Over the Cap and Spotrac, the trade will save the Bears approximately $6 million this season, as they’ll still have $24 million in dead cap space as a result of the restructuring of Mack’s deal that was made during his four-year tenure in Chicago. The trade will clear up some cap space for the team this season, but only some. Meanwhile, the Chargers will be on the hook for a nearly $23 million cap hit in both 2023 and 2024.

Khalil Mack's injury plagued 2021 season and the rise of Robert Quinn in the Bears defense, combined with changes desired by coach Matt Eberflus and GM Ryan ...

They had second-year player Trevis Gipson playing Mack's spot on the left side of the defense last year and he produced seven sacks. Mack fought through minor injuries in 2019 and 2020, then another one early in 2021. They have no fourth-round pick because it was sent with their first-round pick for the right to move up and draft Justin Fields last year. Last season he had six in seven games when his season ended due to foot surgery. The Bears got Mack in a trade with the Raiders and gave up a pair of first-round picks, a second-rounder and a fifth-rounder, and received second- and seventh-round picks back in return, as well. Mack never followed up on the big 2018 season he had with the Bears, making 12 1/2 sacks that year but then 8 1/2 and nine the next two years.

This whirlwind week in the NFL continues with news of yet another trade involving the AFC West. The Los Angeles Chargers are finalizing a trade that will ...

Now someone else will be tasked with facing that pass rushing duo when the Seahawks travel to SoFi Stadium to play the Chargers this season. The Los Angeles Chargers are finalizing a trade that will see pass rusher Khalil Mack return to the division he began his career in. And yes, new Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson will now have to deal with Khalil Mack and Joey Bosa twice a year.

Former Bears GM Ryan Pace made the right move to acquire an elite pass rusher in his prime. The only regret is that — unlike the Rams with Aaron Donald ...

Fangio left to become the Broncos’ head coach, and his departure took much of the bite out of the entire defense under Chuck Pagano and Sean Desai. When Mack came to the Bears, he was known to most Bears fans as a devastating pass rusher. Mack, who will be traded to the Chargers for a 2022 second-round pick and 2023 sixth-round pick, was a stellar game-wrecker for one season. But it was still a deal worth making, one that Ryan Pace surely doesn’t regret and one the Bears would do all over again. The general manager who traded two first-round picks to the Raiders to acquire him in 2018 was just fired — just as Jerry Angelo was fired three years after acquiring Cutler and Phil Emery was fired three years after trading for Marshall. Former Bears GM Ryan Pace made the right move to acquire an elite pass rusher in his prime.

Khalil Mack was coming to Halas Hall, joining the Bears defense to ignite an on-the-rise unit that had eyes on becoming elite. General manager Ryan Pace had ...

Obviously an exciting time to be a Chicago Bear. You have young talent (here). And on the defensive side of the ball, you definitely have some dogs. By trading Mack, Poles indirectly affirmed what most of the league already knew — that the Bears aren’t positioned to compete for anything meaningful in 2022. The climb up the NFL mountain is always steep and full of landslides. Still, the deal also signifies a page-turn that will be hard for some loyal fans to accept. He carried the Rams into the playoffs as an All-Pro in three of those seasons and last month made the Lombardi Trophy-clinching play in the final minute of the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LVI. Donald, though, provided the Rams a far greater return on investment, recording 59 sacks and 78 tackles for loss over the last four seasons while winning Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2018 and 2020. That made him the highest-paid defensive player in NFL history, just a day after Aaron Donald signed a six-year, $135 million extension with the Los Angeles Rams. He wound up on injured reserve last season with a left foot injury he could never get on the right side of. Remember the 50 sacks and 36 takeaways the Bears defense had that season, the vice grip they put on opponents allowing a league-best 17.7 points per game? Remember a short time later when he intercepted a Kizer pass and rolled 27 yards into the south end zone at Lambeau Field to continue his comic-book Bears debut? Man, that unbridled excitement seemed so distant and so depleted Thursday when Mack’s exit from the Bears became reality. General manager Ryan Pace had pulled off a blockbuster trade with the Oakland Raiders, dealing away two first-round picks but reeling in a big fish at a pivotal moment for the franchise.