Chicago Tribune
Jul 25, 2020 8: 29 PM
The Chicago Bears are trading tight stop Adam Shaheen to the Miami Dolphins, a source confirmed to the Tribune on Saturday.
Professional Football Discuss reported the Bears will gain a conditional 2021 sixth-round draft absorb return. The trade marks the stop of a rocky three-year Bears profession for the 2017 2d-round draft take. Shaheen, who became as soon as the No. 45 take out of Division II Ashland, had 26 catches for 249 yards and four touchdowns in 27 video games, including profession highs of 12 catches for 127 yards and three touchdowns in his rookie season.
Shaheen’s Bears tenure became as soon as marked by accidents and underperformance, and the 6-foot-6, 257-pound tight stop completed the final two seasons on injured reserve.
Shaheen, 25, had foot and ankle accidents in 2018 and performed in ideal six video games with four begins. He performed in eight video games in 2019 before he became as soon as benched for performance reasons in early November. The following week, the Bears establish him on the damage file with a foot space, and he didn’t play in one more sport the leisure of the season.
Bears overall manager Ryan Chase said on the stop of the 2019 season that “Shaheen is proficient.”
“What has effort his vogue, especially being uncooked, tiny college, is appropriate the time he’s uncared for,” Chase said. “When he’s performed, we’ve loved what we’ve seen. He appropriate hasn’t establish it obtainable long passable. So he is aware of that. We’ve talked to him about that. He’s frustrated. We’re frustrated. He must preserve wholesome to proceed to invent as a young player.”
The Bears maintain overhauled the tight stop pickle this offseason. They cut Trey Burton in April and launched Ben Braunecker earlier this week. To replace them, the Bears signed ragged Jimmy Graham to a two-year, $16 million contract, drafted 2d-round take Cole Kmet and added ragged Demetrius Harris to the combine.
With Shaheen’s departure, the Bears maintain now parted systems with five draft picks from the predominant three rounds in the Chase skills. The others are 2015 first-round take Kevin White and third-rounder Hroniss Grasu and 2016 first-rounder Leonard Floyd and third-rounder Jonathan Bullard.
Closing with the Bears are Eddie Goldman (2d round, 2015), Cody Whitehair (2d round, 2016), Mitch Trubisky (first round, 2017), Roquan Smith (first round, 2018), James Daniels (2d round, 2018), Anthony Miller (2d round, 2018), David Sir Bernard Law (third round, 2019), Cole Kmet (2d round, 2020) and Jaylon Johnson (2d round, 2020).
