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Bears To Cut QB Glennon; Former RB Forte To Retire

>>Former Bears RB Forte Announces Retirement
 
Running back Matt Forte has announced his retirement from playing after 10 NFL seasons.
 
The 32-year-old Forte had one year remaining on his contract with the Jets, but says in a statement on Twitter on Wednesday that it was time for "the workhorse to finally rest in his stable."
 
Forte, who spent his first eight seasons with Chicago, dealt with knee issues the past two seasons. He had a career-low 381 yards rushing on just 103 carries and ran for two touchdowns last season while playing with swelling in his surgically repaired right knee. He also had 37 catches for 293 yards and one TD.
 
With the Bears from 2008-15, Forte established himself as one of the game's most versatile running backs. His 9,796 yards rushing rank him 33rd on the NFL's career list. He also had 554 receptions.
 
>>Bears To Cut QB Glennon
 
Mitchell Trubisky is the future at quarterback for the Chicago Bears.
 
That's why, as Bears general manager Ryan Pace announced Wednesday, the team will bite the bullet on Mike Glennon, its big-money acquisition of the 2016 offseason. He went 1-3 as a Bears starter, throwing four touchdowns and five interceptions until he was benched for Trubisky.
 
Just one year after signing the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback to a three-year, $45-million deal that reportedly included as much as $18.5 million in guaranteed money, the Bears will release Glennon at the start of free agency on March 14. That means Chicago essentially paid something like $4.6 million for each of Glennon's four starts in 2017 -- a season in which he was quickly supplanted by Trubisky, the No. 2 overall pick in last year's draft.
 
Glennon departing means Chicago will gain $11 million in salary cap space by jettisoning the veteran.

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