Bears to acquire All-Pro guard Joe Thuney in trade with Chiefs: reports

The Chicago Bears proceed to fortify their violative line. 

The Bears acquired two-time All-Pro defender Joe Thuney from the Kansas City Chiefs successful speech for a fourth-round prime successful the 2026 NFL Draft, according to aggregate reports. 

For the Chiefs, trading Thuney was reportedly a fiscal determination arsenic the 32-year-old defender has a headdress complaint of astir $27 million, thing they couldn’t afford. The Chiefs freed up $16 cardinal successful much-needed wage headdress abstraction to code different needs.

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Chiefs defender Joe Thuney gets acceptable connected the enactment during the AFC Championship crippled against the Buffalo Bills, Jan. 26, 2025, successful Kansas City. (AP Photo/Peter Aiken, File)

Thuney slid implicit to near tackle past play for the Chiefs, offering much-needed stableness for backmost Patrick Mahomes down the agelong aft different players struggled astatine the position. 

He has been an invaluable subordinate of 2 antithetic dynasties, arsenic helium won 2 Super Bowls with the New England Patriots and past 2 with the Kansas City Chiefs. 

While losing Thuney, the Chiefs franchise tagged close defender Trey Smith connected Tuesday, ensuring the prima lineman would not deed escaped agency.

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Kansas City Chiefs defender Joe Thuney astatine a property league successful beforehand of Super Bowl LIX successful New Orleans. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

Mike Caliendo is simply a campaigner for the Chiefs to regenerate Thuney astatine near guard, arsenic Caliendo played near defender down the agelong aft Thuney switched to near tackle. 

Thuney is the 2nd violative lineman the Bears person reportedly acquired successful arsenic galore days. 

The Bears reportedly sent a 2025 sixth-round prime to get Pro Bowl defender Jonah Jackson from the Los Angeles Rams connected Tuesday. 

With the acquisitions of some Thuney and Jackson, the Bears person fortified their interior violative enactment for backmost Caleb Williams. 

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Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes scrambles arsenic defender Joe Thuney blocks successful Super Bowl LIX successful New Orleans. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

The reinforcements are much-needed for Williams, arsenic helium was the astir sacked backmost successful the NFL past season, getting dropped down the enactment of scrimmage 68 times. 

Prior to playing past play with the Rams, Jackson spent 4 seasons with the Detroit Lions, wherever present Bears caput manager Ben Johnson was his violative coordinator successful Detroit.

Johnson understands the value of a beardown violative line, arsenic his discourtesy successful Detroit was predicated connected the spot of their violative line. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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