A fun, strange story pooped up this week about Marshawn Lynch. Imagine that, something fun and a bit off-kilter about BeastMode, right? It seems that after his first season with the Seahawks, Lynch wanted to be traded to the Bears in a swap for Chicago’s number one back, Matt Forte. It’s fun to speculate just how this trade would have changed the Hawks.
Before we get to that, some background is needed. The story comes from former Bears receiver Earl Bennett on his podcast, StoryTimeWithEarl. As Bennett tells it, both he and Matt Forte were in contract negotiations with Chicago in the summer of 2011.