The final statline on Roquan Smith’s holdout: 29 days, 15 practices, two (of five) preseason games.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the Bears’ rookie first-round pick is signing a four-year, $18-million guaranteed slotted deal, per the CBA. Smith, the last of 256 drafted players to sign, missed the entirety of the Bears training camp stay at Olivet Nazarene College in Bourbonnais, Ill. (teammates said Smith remained at home in Georgia during the holdout). After a light practice on Sunday the team packed up to head back to Halas Hall still without their rookie first rounder, whose holdout had dragged on much longer than expected.