Would you be wiling to give up a 2nd rounder for

Scott can run back kicks without fumbling them.  Homer is another guy who will be on special teams, if not cut.  All these guys could be easily cut.  You can always find “camp bodies” to replace them. Add a modest restructuring and you’d have enough to pay Hendrickson.

Gale Sayers ran back kicks. If you really want to capitalize on new rules, why not have better players do it? There is risk of injury on every play in football, but I thought the idea of the new rules is to have kick returns without as much injury risk.  I would not be too surprised if some teams try it.

Yeah, the more I think of it, this doesn't sound like a good deal for where the Bears are at right now in their rebuild.  That's close to $40-million dollars there for 3rd round pick Hendrickson -  I'd rather the Bears drafted their own guy next year and have an ascending young player on a rookie contract instead of a guy who will be 30 years old this year, with a $40-million dollar cap hit.  We have all been talking about how the team would not be able to get everything this year, and some needs have to be pushed to 2025.  I'm thinking this is one.

It is not relevant to his play.  But gotta admit that it's a trigger thing with me when I read about investing a lot of money in a guy on the wrong side of 30yrs of age - who often is a guy drafted in the mid to late rounds of the draft.  Why?  Because I think that in most of these cases (not all by any means but many) we should use our draft picks and draft our own guys.  We went into this rebuild with most, if not all of us here, talking about how 2025 would be needed to complete the rebuild.  Not every need would be filled in 2024.  I'm thinking we are probably done (or should be done) for 2024 before we add a $40-million dollar burden on our cap.  My point is that we can draft a young ascending talent next year.  We have 8 draft picks with 4 of those in the top three rounds.  This is a 3rd round guy... we can do this too.  If we can't then we have deeper problems than just signing another vet for 2024.  Let's just draft our own guy.  LOL, I'm grumpy today :-)