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Thursday night, defensive end Montez Sweat looked a lot more like the player the Bears envisioned when they gave him the richest per-year salary in franchise history.
“Having the effect of Tez — the ‘Tez Factor’ — is a pretty cool thing to see … ” coach Matt Eberflus said Friday. “You could feel him forcing those incomplete passes, the hits on the quarterback. That certainly has an effect on their passing game.”
Sweat had eight pressures in the 16-13 win against the Panthers, the most for any Bears player since Robert Quinn in Week 13 of 2020, per NFL Next Gen Stats.