Former Bears linebacker Khalil Mack was watching the television show “Bel Air” with his fiancée and son last week when he got a call from agent Joel Segal telling him he had been traded to the Chargers and would be heading to Los Angeles.
“Kind of a strange coincidence,” he said. “But it was weird to hear.”
Mack was surprised to be traded but not shocked. He knew the Bears landscape had changed when general manager Ryan Pace and coach Matt Nagy were fired after the 2021 season. He had not talked to new GM Ryan Poles until after Segal broke the news that Mack had been traded to the Chargers for a 2022 second-round draft pick and a 2023 sixth-round pick.