It wasn’t the splash some wanted, but the Chicago Bears were active on the NFL’s trade deadline day when they sent a 2026 sixth-round draft pick to the New York Jets for defensive end Joe Tryon-Shoyinka and a 2026 seventh-rounder. The seventh-round pick the Bears acquired from the Philadelphia Eagles was coming back.
To make room for Tryon-Shoyinka on the 53-man roster, they placed defensive end Dayo Odeyingbo on injured reserve with a torn Achilles.
Chicago’s defensive end room now consists of Montez
Sweat, Austin Booker, Daniel Hardy, Dominique Robinson, and Tryon-Shoyinka. Robinson missed Sunday’s win in Cincinnati with a high ankle sprain he suffered the previous week, and it’s possible the injury will keep him out this week against the New York Giants.
The Bears also placed practice squad offensive lineman Ricky Stromberg on injured reserve, and signed offensive lineman Kyle Hergel to take his place.
The 26-year-old Hergel (6’2″, 315) was a UDFA of the Saints in 2024 out of Boston College. He appeared in eight games as a reserve for them that year while bouncing back and forth from the practice squad to the active roster. The Saints waived him this August on their final cutdowns.
Hergel was the third overall pick in the first round of the Canadian Football League draft in 2024 by the Saskatchewan Roughriders. His new teammate, Theo Benedet, was the 15th overall selection in the CFL draft by the BC Lions that year.
The Bears also had four running backs at Halas Hall today on a tryout basis: Isarael Abanikanda, Raheem Blackshear, Montrell Johnson, and ShunDerrick Powell.
