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D’Andre Swift Agrees to $33.75M Extension with Chicago Bears
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In Short: The Chicago Bears and running back D’Andre Swift reached a three-year, $33.75 million extension, with $27.5 million guaranteed, securing his future with the team.
Sources: D'Andre Swift and the Chicago Bears have agreed to a three-year, $33.75 million extension that includes $27.5 million guaranteed, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported. The deal, which averages $11.25 million across its three added seasons, is the first meaningful running back extension since early August.
The Bears' decision to extend Swift's contract comes after he started all 16 games in 2025, rushing for 1,087 yards and nine touchdowns, and adding 34 receptions for 299 yards. Over two years, he has 33 starts, 2,046 rushing yards, 15 rushing touchdowns, and 76 receptions.
Within days, other running backs like Bijan Robinson, Jonathan Taylor, and Jahmyr Gibbs also secured extensions, with guarantees ranging from $51 million to $67.5 million. The Chicago Bears, however, decided to secure Swift's future before the season opener in Carolina.
Sources close to the situation told Ahn Fire Digital that when Swift was asked about his future with the Bears at the Super Bowl in February, he was uncertain. The extension, which is the first meaningful running back contract since August, is a significant move for the team.
What's confirmed
- Sources: D'Andre Swift and the Chicago Bears have agreed to a three-year, $33.75 million extension that includes $27.5 million guaranteed, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported. The deal, which averages $11.25 million across its three added seasons, is the first meaningful running back extension since early August.
- The Bears' decision to extend Swift's contract comes after he started all 16 games in 2025, rushing for 1,087 yards and nine touchdowns, and adding 34 receptions for 299 yards. Over two years, he has 33 starts, 2,046 rushing yards, 15 rushing touchdowns, and 76 receptions.
- Within days, other running backs like Bijan Robinson, Jonathan Taylor, and Jahmyr Gibbs also secured extensions, with guarantees ranging from $51 million to $67.5 million. The Chicago Bears, however, decided to secure Swift's future before the season opener in Carolina.
- Sources close to the situation told Ahn Fire Digital that when Swift was asked about his future with the Bears at the Super Bowl in February, he was uncertain. The extension, which is the first meaningful running back contract since August, is a significant move for the team.
What's still developing
- D’Andre Swift and the team reached agreement Friday on a three-year, $33.75 million extension that carries $27.5 million in guaranteed money, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported, with Athletes First agents Trevon Smith and David Mulugheta finishing the deal as the regular season closed in.
- The next tier is not getting the money, but it is getting the security, and Chicago decided Swift had earned it before he ever took a snap of a contract year.
- The Chicago Bears settled the one contract question still hanging over their offense with two days to spare.
- Trevon Smith and David Mulugheta of Athletes First and the Bears just wrapped up the deal with… pic.twitter.com/JHmA7hIgoH It is Swift’s third NFL contract and his second in Chicago.
- The guarantee is the number that explains what the Bears actually decided.
- The new one averages $11.25 million across its three added seasons, a bump that is more than $3 million annually, and it lands him in a tier the Bears clearly consider worth protecting: $27.5 million of the $33.75 million is guaranteed, which works out to roughly 81 percent of the new money.
- After he signed a three-year, $24 million deal in free agency in 2024, Swift underperformed in Chicago’s offense under the previous regime.
- In his first campaign reunited with Johnson, Swift rushed for 1,087 yards on 223 carries and found the end zone nine times on the ground.