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a string of losing seasons. They just made their biggest move.The Bears acquired star pass rusher Khalil Mack from the Raiders in a massive trade on Saturday that sent two first-round draft picks to Oakland.Mack held out for the entire offseason and preseason Womens Sherrick McManis Jersey , seeking a new, long-term contract rather than play under the final year of his rookie deal that would have earned him $13.8 million. Raiders coach Jon Gruden, in his biggest move since returning to the sideline from the broadcast booth, accommodated the 27-year-old Mack by dealing him.Oakland will get first-round selections in 2019 and 2020, a sixth-rounder next year and a third-rounder in 2020. Oakland also included its second-round selection in 2020 and a conditional fifth-rounder that year.Mack and the Bears agreed to a six-year, $141 million extension that guarantees $90 million. That makes him the highest-paid defensive player in league history one day after Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald, the 2017 Defensive Player of the Year, signed a six-year, $135 million deal, with $87 million guaranteed.ESPN first reported the trade.The fifth overall selection in the 2014 draft, Mack is a two-time All-Pro and the 2016 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Mack has played in every game for Oakland the past four seasons, with 231 primary tackles, 40½ sacks Charles Leno Jersey , and nine forced fumbles.“We are excited to add a special playmaker like Khalil to our football team,” Bears general manager Ryan Pace said in a statement. “He brings a ton on the field, but he really fits what we are building in our locker room, too. Elite defensive players in their prime are rare so when we knew we had a legit shot to acquire him, we did everything we thought necessary to get him.”Since entering the league, Mack leads all players with 185½ quarterback pressures and ranks second with 68 tackles for loss, according to SportRadar. He is one of the most versatile defenders in the NFL.Simply put, he’s a game changer.The move sent shock waves around the league.Raiders quarterback Derek Carr tweeted “No way” and added: “#RaiderNation we feel your pain trust me but we need you next Monday night!” Oakland linebacker Bruce Irvin made his feelings clear with a profane post. He later wrote, “What a shock. Now move on and win.. time to beat the Rams!!”Mack had been a cornerstone in Oakland along with Carr ever since being drafted and helped the Raiders end a 13-year playoff drought in 2016. But he never formed a relationship with Gruden, who had said the opportunity to coach Mack was one of the reasons he was attracted to the job.Gruden had called Mack Oakland’s best player but decided to go in a different direction rather than give another player a contract worth more than $20 million a year after Carr got a lucrative extension last summer.General manager Reggie McKenzie said the two sides traded initial offers before the start of the league year in March and weren’t close at all. The gap never narrowed.“My whole thought process was to get Khalil in here,” McKenzie said. “It was here at the end in the final hour that it kind of just hit and it hit hard and heavy. It was not the plan to trade him at all.”The Raiders invested heavily in the pass rush in the draft, taking tackles P.J. Hall and Maurice Hurst, and end Arden Key in hopes of teaming them with Mack and Irvin. The three rookies showed promise in the preseason http://www.thebearslockerroom.com/authentic-joel-iyiegbuniwe-jersey , but they will never get the chance to play with Mack.Oakland hosts the Rams on Sept. 10. Chicago opens on Sept. 9 in a prime-time game against Green Bay.A thrilled Bears left tackle Charles Leno Jr. tweeted a video of himself dancing to Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack.”A three-time Pro Bowl pick, Mack is also the best pass rusher acquired by the Bears since they signed Julius Peppers away from Carolina with a six-year deal in 2010.The Bears last traded two first-round picks when they acquired quarterback Jay Cutler from Denver in 2009. The deal for Mack is another bold move by Pace as he tries to lift a struggling franchise.Chicago has four straight last-place finishes in the NFC North, five seasons in a row without a winning record, and just one playoff appearance since the 2006 team reached the Super Bowl.But the Bears loaded up around prized quarterback Mitchell Trubisky, firing coach John Fox and replacing him with the offensive-minded Nagy. They added some new playmaking targets, most notably former Jacksonville Pro Bowl receiver Allen Robinson.The Bears re-signed defensive coordinator Vic Fangio after passing on him for the head coaching job and drafted linebacker Roquan Smith with the No. 8 overall pick.Now, the Monsters of the Midway are adding one of the NFL’s top pass rushers to a defense that ranked 10th overall and tied for seventh in sacks despite not having a Pro Bowl player. With his speed and power, Mack gives the Bears a huge threat on the edge to go with Leonard Floyd on the opposite side. The Falcons would not trade two first rounders for Davenport in this scenario."We’re in the middle of draft season, meaning that it’s a perfect time to dip our toes into the re-draft waters, looking back on where the rookies of yesterday would be selected if there were a chance at a draft do-over.SB Nation did a 2018 re-draft, and the results are both favorable and amusing for the Atlanta Falcons. Naturally, in a re-draft, you want your team’s draft pick to go higher than where he originally went — that indicates a very savvy and smart selection. Conversely Womens Nick Kwiatkoski Jersey , if your draft pick goes later than where your team originally selected him, then that’s less than ideal.Calvin Ridley was Atlanta’s original selection, at pick No. 26. In the 2018 season, he led all rookies with 821 receiving yards and 10 receiving touchdowns. The Alabama product also led all wide receivers in the NFL (not just rookies, all of them) in separation creation, via NextGen Stats. Translation: Ridley is already one of the best route runners in the NFL.In the re-draft, Ridley gets selected by the Buffalo Bills at pick No. 16. Buffalo’s original selection, inside linebacker Tremaine Edmunds, goes to the Saints two picks earlier at 14.SB Nation had the following to say about the Ridley pick to the Buffalo:Ridley going higher than 26 would be expected after the season he just had. He had no business falling to 26 in the first place. What’s really amusing, however, is who SB Nation has going to the Falcons at that pick in the re-draft.Marcus Davenport, for whom the New Orleans Saints sacrificed their first-round pick in 2019 to move up, falls from 14 all to the way to Atlanta at 26. And hey Prince Amukamara Jersey , the Falcons would get him without trading their first rounder in 2019. What a concept.Here’s what SB Nation had to say about the pick:Davenport is a solid prospect, but he’ll have to transcend New Orleans’ pass rush for him to be worth the two first round selections they invested in him. That hasn’t happened yet — in his rookie season, Davenport played in 13 games and totaled 4.5 sacks, which would rank fifth on Atlanta’s roster. He also had 12 QB hits, which would be third among all Falcons.The Saints sure could have used more pass rush than they got in the NFC Championship Game — they totaled just one sack of Jared Goff in a game where they lost in overtime. They also could’ve used more than the four receptions for 36 receiving yards Michael Thomas gave them, and they surely didn’t need the interception Drew Brees threw in the extra period, but I digress.New Orleans will be without picks in the first, third, and fourth rounds come the NFL Draft. Not ideal for a team that just went all in to come up short this past season.