Bears trade for Raiders Kicker Pineiro

Having already collaborated on a trade that shook the NFL world before the 2018 season, the Bears and Raiders pulled off another swap on Monday.

Oakland sent kicker Eddy Pineiro to Chicago in return for a conditional 2021 seventh-round draft pick, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported.

While the latest Bears-Raiders trade is ions removed from the colossal Khalil Mack deal, it is evidence of the Bears searching high and low for a new kicker.

Cody Parkey infamously missed a “double-doink” field goal attempt that was partially blocked to lose to the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Wild Card Round.

Since then, Parkey has been released, tryouts have been had, four kickers with no NFL experience have been brought in and an additional quartet combined to go two for eight from 43 yards in the previous week’s rookie camp opener.

While things got better from there, the overall result wasn’t something that inspired confidence in terms of an imminent resolution at kicker.

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Pineiro joins Chris Blewitt and Elliott Fry, the only kickers to survive the weekend, as the third kicker on Chicago’s roster.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean all that much at this point. If you can’t perform, you’re going to get cut, as Redford Jones and John Baron II can attest to.

The Bears will enter OTAs later this month with the kicker competition at three, and you have to wonder how things will play out during those 10 practices that will shape the competition heading into training camp and preseason.

The Bears have been unable to stabilize the kicker position since they released veteran Robbie Gould, the team’s all-time leading scorer, prior to the start of the 2016 regular season. 

The San Francisco 49ers applied the franchise tag to Gould in the offseason, but Gould told ESPN last week that he wants to be traded and will not report before the 49ers’ season opener on Sept. 8. Niners coach Kyle Shanahan said earlier this month that San Francisco won’t honor Gould’s trade request.

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