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Rookie punter Tory Taylor signed his first NFL contract with the Bears, the crew announced on Saturday.

“It changed into once irregular,” Taylor started about signing his contract on Saturday. “I changed into once texting my agent last night. I got a text gradual last night asserting you’ll signal your deal the following day. And then I texted my fogeys this morning asserting ‘Hiya I’m signing my deal this day,’ in lisp that changed into once quite frigid. But they’re quick asleep so that they potentially don’t even know because it can well well had been about 11 p.m. or nighttime there. It’s quite frigid.

“When that stuff extra or less comes up I in actuality take into fable five years ago if somebody told me that I’d be standing at the podium at an NFL facility I would fetch told them that they’re completely crazy. Rather a lot’s extra or less come about within the last three or four years. Fancy I mentioned, I’m in actuality correct grateful to be here, in actuality nice of us within the building. It’s in actuality correct an honor. On the discontinue of the day, it’s the Chicago Bears. The day prior to this sooner than my first ever punt duration within the NFL, coach [Richard] Hightower got here as a lot as me and changed into once worship, ‘Man, you’re a Chicago Undergo.’ That truly helped me settle the nerves a little bit bit.

“Fancy I mentioned, I’m correct in actuality grateful to be here, undoubtedly come a prolonged technique in about a years.”

The Bears selected Taylor, 26, with the No. 122 pick within the 2024 NFL Draft; a fourth-round pick. They obtained that pick one 300 and sixty five days prior when they traded the Eagles the No. 9 pick within the 2023 NFL Draft for the No. 10 pick and a 2024 fourth-rounder.

Taylor is identified for having a monster leg and left Iowa with several NCAA files. His 46.3-yard avg. over his profession and his 4,479 complete punt yards in 2023 are every potentially one of the top marks of all time. Taylor is additionally adept at pinning down opponents. He had 32 punts throughout the 20-yard line last season and his punts led to 29 aesthetic catches in 2023.

For his efforts, Taylor changed into once named a unanimous All-American last 300 and sixty five days and won the Ray Guy Award, which acknowledges the head punter within the nation.

Quickly after the draft, the Bears cleave again ties with Trenton Gill, who the Bears drafted within the seventh round of the 2022 NFL Draft. It’s all about Taylor and the Bears are serious referring to the technique forward for his or her special teams.

“I changed into once colossal excited as our complete draft room changed into once, as Ryan changed into once, as coach [Matt Eberflus] changed into once,” Hightower mentioned to CHGO. “… The fireplace and the fervour in that room when Tory changed into once drafted changed into once unattainable; a resounding enhance. Ought to you in actuality know so a lot about football, and even though a little bit about football, nevertheless every yard issues.

“To accumulate a man that typically is a weapon for us in this fraction of the game is correct in actuality, in actuality frigid.”

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