UA-59049186-1 Welcome to Chicago: Robert Quinn, Edge Defender - Good if it Goes

Welcome to Chicago: Robert Quinn, Edge Defender

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The biggest signing of the Bears’ off-season, Robert Quinn comes to Chicago to give Khalil Mack one heckuva tag team partner. Drafted by the Rams in the first round in 2011, Quinn took over as a starter in 2012 and posted double-digit sacks each of his first three seasons as a starter, including a career-high 19 in 2013. Quinn would miss large chunks of the following two seasons, ending his double-digit sack streak. Quinn played in 15 games with the Rams in 2017 and racked up 8.5 sacks in doing so. In the ensuing off-season, he was traded to Miami. After a rather pedestrian 2018 with the Dolphins, Quinn was traded again, this time to Dallas. With the Cowboys, Quinn looked like his old self, dropping the QB 11.5 times opposite DeMarcus Lawrence.

Quinn comes to the Bears on a 5-year, $70 million dollar deal and should provide the pass rush Leonard Floyd never did. This space projects production similar to his 2019 season with the Cowboys as opposing lines will have to pick their poison with Quinn on one side, Khalil Mack on the other, and Akiem Hicks in between. This space also asserts that a nominal position switch to OLB is not a big deal. The Bears line up in the nickel quite a bit and when they do, the front functions the same way a 4-3’s front would, save for instances when Chuck Pagano gets tricky with who he’s sending. Quinn may be asked to drop into coverage on occasion; if he’s asked to do so so often that his coverage could become a serious liability, the problem be corrected is Pagano’s scheming.

 

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