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Former Bears: ‘What about me now?
‘ From Roquan Smith to Michael Badgley, several former Bears players are competing in Sunday’s Super Bowl while their former teams watch on TV.

One of his most popular shout outs for NFL players who have been rejected by teams is, “What about me now?
” Yesterday’s injured players are trash to one team, but treasure to another.
They can sometimes come back and bite the hand of the team that once fed them.
In some cases, players who become free agents go undrafted due to money and then go on to do great things in the second team.
Several former Chicago Bears players are on the final four rosters for the 2023 season and are playing for a spot in the Super Bowl.
The most obvious of these is Ravens linebacker Roquan Smith, who did very well in contract negotiations and claimed he was worth $100 million.
“We had different values,” the Pole said afterwards.
So the Bears sent him a second round pick, which they then used to draft Jaquan Brisker.
Smith got the money.
Of course, he’s doing very well and will play Kansas City on Sunday for a trip to the Super Bowl as the Ravens look to thwart an offense coached by former Bears coach Matt Nagy.
Here’s a former Bears guy who could go to his old team on Sunday and say, “What about me now?
” if he wanted.
Although they don’t all have great success stories, their teams are still playing, and the Bears have been watching the playoffs on their home TVs since their inception.

There’s no doubt that Montmerry, who was selected by the Bears in the third round of the 2019 draft, is worth the Lions’ three-year, $6 million contract, but the Bears don’t have to spend that much money to keep him.
It is not entirely clear whether he refused to pay.
In the end, it seems like Montgomery just wanted to play for a winner, and that’s exactly what he did.
Montgomery gained 1,015 yards in 14 of 17 games as a starter.
He achieved more than that only once with the Bears (1,070).
He scored a career-high 13 touchdowns and caught 16 passes for 117 yards while splitting time with speedy rookie Jahmil Gibbs.
He has always been a player who can break a lot of tackles, but this year he only broke three tackles.
Perhaps he feels less of a need to run behind the dominant Lions offense.
Let’s talk about someone who was lucky.
The Bears didn’t need him, and neither did Tennessee or Philadelphia.
Instead, he ended up being traded to the Lions, starting their final four games, including two in the playoffs.
He had six tackles in the postseason for Detroit.
The 2020 fifth-round pick started 22 games for the Bears and appeared in 44 games in three seasons, but Wildor won’t get a chance in Chicago after the Poles drafted Tyrik Stevenson and Terrell Smith.
It became clear that there were not many.
he got hurt He made his first appearance for the Lions off the bench in the Bears’ 28-13 loss to Detroit at Soldier Field, making three tackles, including one for a loss.

After the Bears cut Wildor, he appeared on the Titans’ roster for five games, appearing in the season opener against the Saints, but was cut.
The Eagles signed him in Week 6 and he was on the roster for three games, but he did not play and was released.
After he remained with the Eagles, the Lions drafted him.

Bears fans will remember the 2022 game against the Giants when Cairo Santos was unable to play due to personal reasons.
The Bears needed a kicker, so they signed Badgley.
Badgley was the Chargers’ kicker for three seasons before playing with the Colts and Titans in 2021.
Badgley went 4-for-4 from the field and scored all of the Bears’ points in the game.
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Loss in New Jersey.
Santos then returned and Badgley was released four days after signing and kicking with them.
He pitched for the Lions late that season, was released at the beginning of training camp in 2023, and played in Detroit practice this season after the Titans and Commanders released him briefly in the preseason, both cutting him.
He was returned to the team.
The Lions then added him to their practice squad and activated him in December.
He became the current kicker after outperforming regular kicker Riley Patterson in practice during the season.
Badgley hasn’t missed a shot in seven attempts since being activated, including over 50 shots.
He did not disappear, as the Polish regime may have suspected when it did not want to bring him back in 2022.
Instead, he started every game for the 49ers over the past two years, recording six interceptions, 11 pass breakups and one and a half sacks.

Over the past two seasons, he posted excellent pass ratings of 63.
8 and 65.
4 as a target player, with a target success rate of less than 60% in both years.
Gipson is 33 years old and has played in more than 2,000 games over the past two years.
In many ways, Jackson accomplished far more with the 49ers with a two-year cap price of $3.
3 million than he did with the Bears in 2022-23 with a cap price of $32 million.