{"id":267085,"date":"2026-02-25T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=267085"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:53:31","slug":"breaking-another-quarterback-joins-the-trade-block-tyson-bagent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2026\/02\/25\/breaking-another-quarterback-joins-the-trade-block-tyson-bagent\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Another Quarterback Joins the Trade Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quarterback carousel is spinning already, and at least one big trade will probably go down once the 2026 league year officially kicks off. While <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2026\/02\/24\/cardinals-emerge-as-favorites-for-qb-malik-willis\/\" target=\"_self\">Malik Willis is the prize jewel<\/a> in free agency and veterans like Kyler Murray and Tua Tagovailoa could be had for the right price, a younger quarterback could also be available.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/04\/26\/this-offensive-lineman-extension-is-priority-to-ryan-poles-chicago-bears\/\" target=\"_self\">General Manager Ryan Poles<\/a> announced that the team has received trade inquiries for backup quarterback Tyson Bagent. While nothing is imminent, <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/patrickfinley\/status\/2026318394585223298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Finley of the\u00a0<\/a><em><a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/patrickfinley\/status\/2026318394585223298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reported Poles wouldn&#8217;t rule out trading him if the right offer came along.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBm4kxjyTD\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 5694px; aspect-ratio: 5694\/3796;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<h2>REPORT: Bears Could Trade Quarterback Tyson Bagent<\/h2>\n<p>This is an interesting report, as Tyson Bagent doesn&#8217;t exactly have a long track record of success. Originally joining the team as an undrafted free agent, the Shepherd product spent most of the past three seasons as Chicago&#8217;s primary backup quarterback, although he made four starts as a rookie. During his time on the field, Bagent went 2-2 while completing 65.7% of his passes for 859 yards, three touchdowns, and six interceptions. He hasn&#8217;t made a start in the past two seasons, but he has played well in the preseason and is widely considered to be one of the league&#8217;s better backup quarterbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are, any team looking to trade for Tyson Bagent isn&#8217;t doing it with the belief that he&#8217;ll be a can&#8217;t-miss franchise quarterback. While he does the little things right, he lacks elite physical traits and will probably peak as a low-end starter or bridge quarterback. Players like this belong in the NFL, but it&#8217;s hard to envision anyone giving up a significant draft pick for him. In all likelihood, Bagent is somebody&#8217;s Plan B or C, and he might have the opportunity to fight for a starting job somewhere if the Bears trade the quarterback.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Brad Rempel &#8211; Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several teams could make a move at quarterback in the coming weeks, and a new quarterback is reportedly available for the right price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":267106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,23,6431],"tags":[7403,32042],"class_list":["post-267085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-bears","category-nfl-teams","tag-chicago-bears-news","tag-tyson-bagent"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267107,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267085\/revisions\/267107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}