Matt Forte is about to change titles. He’ll go from Chicago Bears running back to aging running back.
That feels like the transition made by every running back who becomes a late-career free agent. Forte hitting free agency has been inevitable for quite some time now, and he made it official through an Instagram post Friday morning. So immediately we begin going about the imperfect science of disregarding the age reflected by his birth certificate, instead trying to determine how old Forte is as a running back, and how much he has left to offer on the open market.