Kevin Byard Moving on from Chicago Bears for New England Patriots
CHGO Chicago Bears Podcast
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One guy that helped the Bears win games a ton. |
| 0:03.8 | Sad to see you go. |
| 0:05.3 | He gets the siren. |
| 0:07.1 | Elijah doesn't. |
| 0:08.4 | Kevin Byrd, who led the NFL in Interceptions, gets the siren. |
| 0:13.2 | All right, fair. |
| 0:14.8 | Kevin Byard out the door on a one-year $9 million deal to go to the New England Patriots, |
| 0:23.8 | people thought that money was going to get closer to like 2 and 25, |
| 0:27.4 | it was I saw, speculated, even 2 and 30. |
| 0:29.9 | Not if you read Adam Johns and Adam Hogue's thoughts coming out of the combine, |
| 0:34.7 | which I know you definitely read. |
| 0:36.1 | If you read Adam Hogue and Adam John's thoughts out of the combine at all CHGO.com become a diehard and whatnot, $36 with the code J-A-H-N-S, you would have realized that the market was not going to be that strong. And here it is for one year and $9 million. Yeah, we had it had it between 8 and 10 million, so that's right in there. |
| 0:55.7 | What I am surprised though, it's only a one-year deal. |
| 0:58.1 | I mean, that part of it, the fact that he couldn't get multiple years, |
| 1:03.1 | yes, he's older. |
| 1:05.6 | No, he didn't look like it last year. |
| 1:08.5 | And, you know, leading the league interceptions, it's a great deal for the Patriots. I think, you know, good for them. I guess my question to you guys is one year, nine million? Would you have brought him back? Right. I mean, he reunites with Mike Vrable, so, you know, see that connection. Yeah. But, you know, I mean, it is shocking. |
| 1:29.5 | I mean, I would have brought back to one year and ten million. |
| 1:31.8 | But the fact that Kevin Byard one year nine million and Nashon Wright, one year five |
| 1:37.4 | million, when these two were, what, one and two in takeaways in the NFL last year, |
| 1:42.9 | you think that that would earn them something on the market. |
| 1:46.4 | There's 32 teams. |
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