Bears get great odds on $40 million free agent signing being a success
This $40 million safety addition already looks to be a great one for the Bears.
Bears get great odds on $40 million free agent signing being a success originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Chicago Bears were dealt some bad news this offseason when Drew Dalman retired, but they quickly answered by trading for Garrett Bradbury.
They lost Tremaine Edmunds in a roster cut, and quickly answered by signing Devin Bush. But their best roster move this offseason might not have been such a reactionary move. Instead, before they officially lost either Kevin Byard or Jaquan Brisker, the Bears went out and signed Coby Bryant to a $40 million three-year deal.
As ESPN's Bill Barnwell found, this signing for the Bears has some great odds of being a success. According to the success rate of safety signings, Bryant to the Bears has a 60% chance of working out. Bears' Coby Bryant signing has 60% chance of being a success Barnwell found that, of safeties signed between 2013 and 2022, the success rate for those signings was a very strong 60.
6%. In comparison, the next highest success rate on a position-by-position basis is defensive tackles at just 491%. Essentially, when teams sign safeties to free agent contracts, those moves are more likely than any other to work out for the team signing them.