Brad Biggs: Bears will have interest in Pro Bowl guard Trey Smith if he reaches free agency

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00:00I know we're more than a month away from free agency,

00:02but you do have an enticing item and you talked to some people

00:05about whether Trey Smith, who once was thought to be a guy,

00:08the Chiefs guard, that would not get to free agency,

00:12they would not let him do that, might become more available,

00:15might be on the open market, and if he is, obviously,

00:18he becomes somebody the Bears would be very interested in.

00:22Yeah, I think the Bears and a lot of teams

00:25would have considerable interest in Trey Smith.

00:29Kansas City's got a really good problem to have.

00:31They've got a host of young players that need to be paid

00:35and might not be able to get it done with all of them.

00:39It's still possible.

00:41No one's sure which way this thing's going to go.

00:44You know, I talked to one GM, and he's like,

00:47yeah, it's possible it could get to the market.

00:49He said that the $20 million guard scares some teams.

00:54Like, some teams don't want to go that high

00:58for an interior offensive lineman,

01:00and you can understand why.

01:04If Trey Smith makes it to market,

01:06you're talking about a guy at the top of his game,

01:10entering the prime of his career with a clean injury history.

01:14You're going to have no shortage of teams

01:17with a lot of cap space interested in talking to him.

01:24Like, it's really easy to play connected

01:26bats between the Bears and Trey Smith

01:28if, indeed, he gets to free agency.

01:32There's going to be other teams

01:33that are going to be in the mix there for him,

01:37and one thing to keep in mind is the Chiefs

01:40weren't particularly driven

01:42to keep cornerback Algeria Snead at last March,

01:48and they executed a tag-and-trade with him,

01:51used the franchise tag on him,

01:53and then came up with a trade with the Tennessee Titans

01:58that involved a third-round pick in this year's draft,

02:02I believe, and I think they swapped

02:04seventh-round picks as well.

02:06But in that scenario, the Chiefs could have some control

02:11over where Trey Smith was to go

02:14if, indeed, he's not in their future.