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Jaylon Johnson<\/a> is under contract through the 2027 season. It isn’t stopping him from eyeing another negotiation.<\/p>\n

The Bears’ Pro Bowl corner made his intentions clear when talking with reporters Saturday: He’s playing for another payday.<\/p>\n

“This is definitely a contract year,” Johnson said, via ESPN<\/a>. “We all know with the cap hit and all that stuff. It’s definitely a contract year for me. At the end of the day, whether that’s here, somewhere else, I’ve got to put it on tape that I’m still a top guy in this league.”<\/p>\n

A second-round pick in 2020, Johnson earned a franchise tag and eventual four-year, $76 million extension<\/a> in 2024, keeping him in Chicago for the foreseeable future. Two years later, he’s aware the structure of his contract and the Bears’ upcoming cap situation might lead him to a new home.<\/p>\n

Chicago is projected to have roughly $8 million in cap space in 2027. The Bears can save $16 million by cutting Johnson after the 2026 season, a number that makes such a decision quite appealing for a contender.<\/p>\n

Johnson knows an outcome is possible, if not likely. It’s why he’s not only playing for the Bears in 2026, but also his earning power in 2027 and beyond.<\/p>\n

“I’m not a dummy,” Johnson said. “We all know that and I’ve structured my deal a certain way to put myself back at the table at the age of 27. For me, it was always for this point to get here, and then show how I do what I do and be healthy and be out there doing what I do best and that’s covering, that’s making plays, being a difference-maker. From there, wherever that contract talk goes, it goes.”<\/p>\n

Injuries limited Johnson to seven games last season, the first in which he didn’t log double-digit appearances. He’s out to prove last year’s challenges were a fluke and not an indicator of what’s ahead. If he can accomplish that, he can expect another big contract; it just might not be an offer that keeps him in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaylon Johnson is under contract through the 2027 season. It isn’t stopping him from eyeing another negotiation. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":931117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[2390,529,43574,532,531,1544,19157,48225,3570,58892,29288,50028,4716,50,1232,34238,1105,1545,19156,62,21082,20026,67,132,68,33503],"class_list":["post-975645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-analysis","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-chicago-bears","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-deshaun-watson","tag-jaylon-johnson","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kenneth-walker-iii","tag-lamar-jackson","tag-landon-dickerson","tag-new-york-giants","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-shedeur-sanders","tag-sports","tag-t-j-watt","tag-training-camp","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-what-we-learned"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117025902984657523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}