Since the beginning of the year, Bears general manager Ryan Pace touted the team’s ample salary cap space as a tool to improve the roster and vowed to be “aggressive and calculated” during the 2017 player acquisition period. Said period is halfway over.
Dollars freely flowed into the bank accounts of 17 new players during free agency. Minor signings will happen in the weeks and months leading up to training camp, but the free agency period is largely complete. With the draft just a few weeks away, this pause presents a perfect opportunity to reflect, analyze and assess what the team did with the money and what it did to reshape the roster.