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Quicker than a hiccup, the Chicago Bears pounced upon D’Andre Swift in free agency.
Brimming with potential during his tenure with the Detroit Lions, Swift put forward his best and fleetest foot in 2023 with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Clearly impressed, the Bears wasted no time and agreed to a three-year, $24 million deal with Swift on the first day of free agency’s legal tampering period March 11.
The Bears wanted a game-breaking back, a more dangerous element in the backfield, if you will, and they believe they got him.
“Just a weapon back,” Bears head coach Matt Eberflus answered Friday when asked why the team moved so quickly to sign him.
“You know we really needed that guy that can really operate on third down and even on first or second down and be a weapon in the deep part of the field and the short part of the field and take it the distance.
And he’s got a lot of gas.”
The aptly named Swift topped out at 20.37 mph in a Week 2 game against the Minnesota Vikings last season, per Next Gen Stats, and finished with a half-dozen runs of 20-plus yards.
In his fourth NFL campaign, he also earned his first Pro Bowl Games selection, having rushed for 1,049 yards on 229 carries (4.6 yards per carry) with an additional 214 yards on 39 receptions.
It was his first 1,000-yard season as he garnered career bests in yards, carries, first downs (50) and yards per game (65.6) — by nearly 20 yards.
