The Tennessee Titans want a whole lot of value if they're going to trade out of the No. 2 overall pick, and apparently Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler won't cut it. The Bears have reportedly spoken to the Titans about moving up to No. 2, but Tennessee is "not interested" in the veteran quarterback, according to Bob Holtzman of ESPN.
Not even the Titans want Jay Cutler
The Chicago Bears are reportedly trying to trade with the Tennessee Titans, but the latter team is uninterested in Jay Cutler and his massive contract.
Cutler has been rumored in potential trades all offseason, but few teams seem interested. It’s not that he’s not capable of being an effective quarterback in the NFL; it’s that the Bears signed him to a massive contract extension that they seemed to immediately regret. Taking on that kind of contract seems to be a major sticking point for potentially interested teams.
Cutler and his agent negotiated a massive contract extension in 2013, which guarantees him $15.5 million in 2015 and $10 million in 2016, and expecting a team to trade for the right to pay him that much money is a little foolish at this point.
Even if Cutler’s contract wasn’t so unwieldy, the Titans would likely want more than him to get a deal done. The Titans have a lot of needs, and while multiple teams seem interested in trading up into the spot for, presumably, the right to draft Marcus Mariota, the team is looking for “HUGEEEE value” in return.
The Philadelphia Eagles are the one team most persistently linked to the Titans' pick. Philadelphia is reportedly so set on getting Mariota that they've also contacted the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who have the No. 1 overall pick and seem set to draft Jameis Winston. For what it's worth, Paul Kuharsky of ESPN reports that the Bears and Eagles are "two teams pushing hardest" for a deal with Tennessee.
Regardless, it seems likely that Cutler will remain with Chicago next season. The Bears will have a mostly effective quarterback who completed 66 percent of his passes for 3,812 yards, 28 touchdowns and 18 interceptions last season. But Cutler has also had his share of struggles on the field. The turnover-prone quarterback has thrown 130 interceptions to 183 touchdowns over the course of his NFL career.
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