The Bears acquired star pass rusher, NO.1 Linebacker In The NFL, “Khalil Mack” from the Raiders in a massive trade on Saturday that sent two first-round draft picks to Oakland.
Khalil Mack held out for the entire offseason and preseason, seeking a new, long-term contract rather than play under the final year of his rookie deal that would have earned him $13.8m. The Oakland Raiders , in their biggest this summer, 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.
Khalil Mack and the Bears agreed to a six-year, $141m extension that guarantees $90m. 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, $135m deal, with $87m guaranteed.
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, 40 and a half sacks, 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 185 and a half 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.
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The move sent shock waves around the league.
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 $20m 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 PJ 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, but they will never get the chance to play with Mack.
Oakland hosts the Rams on 10 September. Chicago opens on 9 September 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.
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Current Contract
Khalil Mack signed a 6 year, $141,000,000 contract with the Chicago Bears, including a $34,000,000 signing bonus, $90,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $23,500,000. In 2018, Mack will earn a base salary of $7,000,000 and a signing bonus of $34,000,000, while carrying a cap hit of $13,800,000 and a dead cap value of $60,000,000.
Bonus Breakdown Cap Details Cash Details Year Age Base Salary Signing Roster Cap Hit Dead Cap Yearly Cash 2018 
27 $7,000,000 $6,800,000 – $13,800,000 $60,000,000 $41,000,000($41,000,000) 2019 28 $11,300,000 $6,800,000 $4,200,000 $22,300,000 $46,200,000 $15,500,000($56,500,000) 2020 29 $13,300,000 $6,800,000 $3,900,000 $24,000,000 $24,100,000 $17,200,000($73,700,000) 2021 30 $17,046,000 $6,800,000 $200,000 $24,046,000 $13,600,000 $17,246,000($90,946,000) Potential Out: 2022, 4 yr, $90,946,000; $6,800,000 dead cap
2022 31 $12,050,000 $6,800,000 $5,700,000 $24,550,000 $6,800,000 $17,750,000($108,696,000) 2023 32 $17,200,000 – $5,700,000 $22,900,000 – $22,900,000($131,596,000) 2024 33 $17,550,000 – $5,700,000 $23,250,000 – $23,250,000($154,846,000) 2025 34 UFA Contract Notes:
- $60M guaranteed at signing (signing bonus + 2018 salary + 2019 salary + 2019 roster bonus + 2020 roster bonus)
- 2020 salary fully guarantees on the 3rd league day of 2019
- $16M of 2021 salary fully guarantees on the 3rd league day of 2020
- 2019 Roster Bonus: $4M (guaranteed)
- 2020 Roster Bonus: $3.7M (guaranteed)
- 2022 Roster Bonus: $12.05M (due the 3rd league day of 2022)
- 2023 Roster Bonus: $5.5M (due the 3rd league day of 2023)
- 2024 Roster Bonus: $5.5M (due the 3rd league day of 2024)
- Annual Per Game Active Bonus: $12,500 ($200,000)
Contract Source: PFTPrevious Contracts
2014-2018Entry Level
Year Age Base Salary Signing Bonus Roster Bonus Workout Bonus Cap Hit Dead Yearly Cash 2014 23 $420,000 $2,975,818 – – $3,395,818 $18,676,999 $12,323,272($154,846,000) 2015 24 $510,000 $2,975,818 $758,955 – $4,244,773 $15,281,181 $1,302,909($154,846,000) 2016 25 $600,000 $2,975,818 $1,517,909 – $5,093,727 $8,759,545 $2,117,909($154,846,000) 2017 26 $690,000 $2,975,818 $2,276,864 – $5,942,682 $5,942,682 $2,966,864($154,846,000) 2018 27 $13,846,000 – – – $13,846,000 $13,846,000 $13,846,000($154,846,000) 2019 28 UFA - 5th Year Option Available
- 2015-17 Roster Bonuses Guarantee the 3rd day of each year’s training camp
Mack was raised by his parents, high school sweethearts Yolanda, a teacher, and Sandy Mack Sr., a program specialist, in Fort Pierce, Florida. He has two brothers, Sandy, Jr. and LeDarius. His father introduced him to sports at the age of five. Mack took an early liking to baseball and basketball although he played Pop Warner football.
In his senior year, Mack had 140 tackles, including eight for a loss, and nine sacks. He was named third-team All-State in Florida, as well as first-team All-Area, and helped lead the Panthers to a district championship. Being a newcomer to the sport, he was rated as only a two-star recruit by Rivals.com. He received a scholarship from the State University of New York at Buffalo to play Division I football.
College career
2010 season
After redshirting as a freshman in 2009, Mack broke into the starting lineup and was one of the most productive defenders in the MAC. He totaled 68 tackles, including 14 and a half for loss, four and a half sacks, ten pass breakups, eight quarterback hurries, and two forced fumbles. He earned third team all-conference honors.
He chose to wear the uniform number 46, an unconventional number for a linebacker, as a motivational reminder that his true potential was not being recognized – 46 was the overall rating assigned to him (out of a maximum of 99) in EA Sports‘ college football video game, NCAA Football 11.
2011 season
2012 season
Despite being suspended for the first game of the season following an altercation with teammate wide receiver Fred Lee, Mack set career highs in tackles (94), tackles for loss (21 – fourth in the nation), and sacks (8). He also recorded two pass breakups, four quarterback hurries, and four forced fumbles. He earned first team all-conference honors for the second consecutive season.
2013 season
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Sophomore (2011): Despite being the focal point of nearly every offenses’ blocking scheme, Mack led the team in sacks, tackles for loss and forced fumbles… first-team All-MAC… tabbed by Sports Illustrated as an honorable mention All-American… named to Phil Steele’s All-MAC first team… had 65 tackles, including 20.5 tackles for loss, third most in the nation… added five forced fumbles (tied for eighth in the nation)… brought down the quarterback 5.5 times and added 13 quarterback hurries… started the season with five tackles (two for loss), a sack, a forced fumble and a pass breakup against Pittsburgh (9/3)… earned the MAC East defensive player of the week honors and College Football Performance Awards’ Linebacker of the week after eight tackles, a sack, 3.5 tackles for loss, two forced fumbles, an interception and three quarterback hurries against Stony Brook (9/10)… had a season-high 11 tackles against Ball State (9/17)… led the team to a 38-37 win over Ohio thanks to five tackles (2.5 for loss), a half sack and a forced fumble (10/8)… tore apart the Akron backfield for five solo tackles (three for loss), two sacks, a forced fumble and a blocked punt (11/19).
Freshman (2009): Redshirted in his first season at Buffalo.
College statistics
| Year | Games | Tackles | Sacks | Pass Defense | Fumbles | Blkd | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solo | Ast | Total | TFL – Yds | No – Yds | Int – Yds | BU | PD | Qbh | Rcv – Yds | FF | Kick | Saf | ||
| 2010 | 12 | 40 | 28 | 68 | 14.5 – 86 | 4.5 – 40 | 0 – 0 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 1 – 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 12 | 38 | 27 | 65 | 20.5 – 74 | 5.5 – 35 | 1 – 23 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 – 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | 11 | 52 | 42 | 94 | 21.0 – 98 | 8.0 – 63 | 0 – 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 – 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013 | 13 | 56 | 44 | 100 | 19.0 – 98 | 10.5 – 79 | 3 – 125 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 3 – 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | 48 | 186 | 141 | 327 | 75 – 268 | 28.5 – 217 | 4 – 148 | 21 | 12 | 31 | 4 – 0 | 16 | 2 | 0 |
Records
- Buffalo career records
- Most tackles for loss (75)
- Most sacks (28.5)
- Most forced fumbles (16)
- NCAA records
- Tied for first in tackles for loss (75)
- Most forced fumbles (16)
Professional career
| Ht | Wt | Arm length | Hand size | 40-yard dash | 10-yd split | 20-yd split | 20-ss | 3-cone | Vert jump | Broad | BP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 ft 2 5⁄8 in (1.90 m) |
251 lb (114 kg) |
33 1⁄4 in (0.84 m) |
10 1⁄4 in (0.26 m) |
4.65 s | 1.53 s | 2.57 s | 4.18 s | 7.08 s | 40 in (1.02 m) |
10 ft 8 in (3.25 m) |
23 reps | |
| All values from NFL Combine[18] | ||||||||||||
Oakland Raiders
2014 season
2015 season
On December 13, Mack finished a game against the Denver Broncos with five sacks, tying a Raiders franchise record for sacks in a game, previously set by defensive end Howie Long in 1983. The game, which the Raiders won 15-12, was the franchise’s first over the Broncos since September 2011. The following week, Mack was announced to be going to the Pro Bowl, his first, along with teammates safety Charles Woodson and fullback Marcel Reece.
After the conclusion of the season, Mack became the first player in NFL history to make the AP All-Pro First Team at two different positions in the same year. He was ranked 13th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2016.
2016 season
2017 season
Career statistics
| Year | Team | Games | Tackling | Fumbles | Interceptions | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Comb | Total | Ast | Sack | FF | FR | Yds | Int | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | PD | ||
| 2014 | OAK | 16 | 16 | 76 | 59 | 17 | 4.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | OAK | 16 | 16 | 77 | 57 | 20 | 15.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | OAK | 16 | 16 | 73 | 54 | 19 | 11.0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| 2017 | OAK | 16 | 16 | 78 | 61 | 17 | 10.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Career | 64 | 64 | 314 | 231 | 73 | 40.5 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 6 | 1 | 11 | |
Personal life
Mack taught himself to play guitar as a freshman at the University at Buffalo and enjoys singing and writing music. His reputation as a singer has led Raiders teammates to attempt to goad him into singing R. Kelly and Usher songs. He is a fan of musicians Tim McGraw and Hanson.[5][40]
Mack is an active Christian and spent much of his youth attending a church where his father and mother both served as deacons. Mack also enjoys spending time with his nieces, Malaysia, Maayana and Ma’kiyah, and counts his favorite film as The Sound of Music.
In 2017, his younger brother LeDarius Mack joined his alma mater, the University at Buffalo, after two years at ASA College in Miami
