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When the Bears traded a second-round pick for defensive end Montez Sweat and quickly signed him to the highest annual average pay in franchise history, there was no doubt he would shoot to the top of the pecking order at his position.
The question was whose snaps Sweat would cut into out of Yannick Ngakoue and DeMarcus Walker.
In Sweat’s Bears debut, a 24-17 loss to the Saints, the team rotated the three of them evenly. Sweat and Ngakoue were the starters, but they and Walker all played about two-thirds of the game.