Bears transaction tracker: Who’s coming, going this offseason

The Bears have been busy with a flurry of moves as they try to sharpen their roster — and make prudent salary cap decisions.

They can start agreeing to deals with free agents Monday, though players can’t officially sign their contracts until the start of the league year Wednesday.

Here’s a look at who the Bears have gained, and lost:

March 8

Defensive end Daniel Hardy, who has been a special teams ace, agreed to sign a two-year deal worth as much as $6 million to return to the Bears, a source confirmed to the Sun-Times on Sunday. Hardy played only 5% of the Bears’ defensive snaps last year but appeared in a whopping 78% of their kicking plays, totaling 22 tackles.

March 6

The day Drew Dalman put in his retirement paperwork, the Bears traded a 2027 fifth-round draft pick to the Patriots for his replacement, center Garrett Bradbury. Bradbury, who started every game for the AFC champions last year, has one year left on a $9.6 million contract he signed last year after spending six years with the Vikings.

March 5

Needing to clear cap space and cognizant of their depth at wide receiver, the Bears traded DJ Moore and a fifth-round pick to the Bills for a second-round draft pick this year. Moore jad just 682 receiving yards on 50 catches last year, the worst numbers of his career. Had the Bears kept Moore, he would have cost a $24.5 million salary cap hit, the third-highest on the team.

Eight days after telling linebacker Tremaine Edmunds and his agent that they could seek a trade, the Bears told Edmunds they were cutting him. They saved $15 million in cap space in the process. Edmunds had four interceptions in 13 games last year, the second-most among all NFL linebackers.

March 3

Center Drew Dalman, who played every snap and reached the Pro Bowl in his first year with the Bears, told the team he planned to retire after just five years in the NFL. He filed his retirement paperwork three days later.