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Nobody is safe.
That has to be the message permeating the Bears’ locker room after new general manager Ryan Poles traded linebacker Roquan Smith to the Ravens on Monday —one day before Tuesday’s 3 p.m. trade deadline —for a 2023 second-round pick, 2023 fifth-round pick and veteran linebacker A.J. Klein.
Smith was in the final year of his contract, but the Bears could have kept him on the franchise tag the next two years for about $38 million total.