As expected, the Bears did not pick up the fifth-year option in 2019 for injury-plagued WR Kevin White, who has played in just five games in three years since the Bears selected him seventh overall in the 2015 draft. The news was first reported by NFL Media's Mike Garafolo.
That option would have cost the Bears $13.92 million, which is the average of the top-10 salaries for all wide receivers, but the hard-luck White remains under contract for 2018. Of the 32 first-round picks in 2015 whose options had to be picked up before May 3, 20 of them were re-signed for a fifth year.