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Jay Cutler on Matt Forte: ‘I wouldn’t trade him for anybody’

With the NFL’s Tuesday trade deadline looming, Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte has been a name we have heard being circulated around the league as a potential player to be moved.

Forte turns 30 in December and is set to be a free agent in 2016, but count Bears quarterback Jay Cutler among those who don’t want to see him traded.

“I wouldn’t trade him for anybody else,” Cutler said of Forte, via the team’s official website. “He’s a three-down back. He does so much protection-wise. He does so much in the passing game.