Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Jordan Schultz talks trade interest in DJ Moore, Tyson Bagent, Gervon Dexter

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris were joined by NFL insider Jordan Schultz to discuss the trade interest in a handful of Bears players, including receiver DJ Moore and backup quarterback Tyson Bagent.

This is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 1043, the score. We go to our hotline. That is where we find NFL insider reporter and a little bit of a Bears newsbreaker today as well. Jordan Schultz, host of The Schultz Report and co-host of Why is Draymond Green talking about football? You can catch him on Schultz underscore report on X. Jordan, thanks for joining us. You had a lot of posts this morning about the Bears. What's the latest?

Yeah, the Bears are in a really. interesting position right now because they're kind of off this kind of magical playoff run. The roster's in pretty good shape. You have the quarterback, you have the coach. There's so much good stuff, but you also have a lot of decisions to make. I reported earlier today about

Javon Dexter, you know, comes off its third season, extension eligible, former second round pick, and, you know, it's not a good defensive tackle draft, and it's not a particularly good defense to tackle free agency market. So someone like Dexter, who's eligible, becomes very

attractive to several teams who need a defensive tackle. And then I mentioned Baygent and DJ Moore as well. The Bears are getting an influx of calls on Tyson-Bajun. My understanding is they really like them. They don't want to move them. But you never say never when it comes to a quarterback, and you never know how desperate a team will get when it comes to an offer. So a lot to monitor with Chicago next couple weeks.

Jordan, you mentioned Tyson-Bajun. I'm just curious because it is such a quarterback deficient. rookie class coming in after Fernando Mendoza. What kind of pick do you think the Bears would pull the trigger on to get him? And is that something that could actually happen? It's certainly surprised if it happened because I know they really value him. They obviously extended him a year ago. He's young and he's very well liked in the building.

I don't know the answer exactly what would it take. But I would say they would have to be completely blown away to even consider it. And so far, even though there's been a lot of calls, they haven't had that. Jordan, what has been the most surprising piece of news you think you've broken so far, or at least are chasing down at the combine? You know, there's so much noise, and it can be difficult to navigate it, because right now everyone's market, I always say, is 25, 30% better than it actually is. You know, if you ask people, okay, what's a number on, if you ask an agent,

what's the number on this guy? If he's worth 12, maybe the agent will say, you know, 17, you hear a lot of that because then you navigate around and you realize maybe that player is not quite out the market. So there's a lot of that in navigating right now. You know, free agency really dominates the combine despite it really being a draft-featured event. I'd say one of the more interesting things I've heard is just the amount of buzz around Ty Simpson, the Alabama quarterback, a lot of love for him, and then the

receivers. I think between Jalen Tyson from Arizona State, Cardinal Tate, Cardinal Tate from Ohio State, Denzel Boston from Washington, Mackay Lemon from UFC. It's a really interesting wide receiver class with an influx of different style of players. You know, last year, obviously, a couple years ago, you know, we had the Harrison, neighbors, O'Dunze draft. You know, I don't know if this has that type of star power, but maybe it does because you're talking about four, potential at least first round picks a receiver. Jordan before we let you go, Jordan Shultz, NFL Insider, I got to ask you about

Max Crosby because a lot of teams are interested in him. Mike Flora reporting the cost would be two first rounders and a player. Are there a lot of people who are willing to ante up to that? Oh, no, we lost Jordan. Oh, no. That's a cliffhanger right there. Jordan was a, he's chasing down stuff. So I think he's amidst, he's amidst all the news at the combine.

so at least we got Jordan for the time that we had him. I know it's been a busy day for him as well. And just to recap some of the news that he did publish so far about the bears, he mentioned it. There was the Jervon Dexter post, and I think that's what surprised me the most. Teams have inquired with the bears about Jervon Dexter, who is in the last year of his contract,

as the free agent defensive market and draft class are not deep. That for the defensive tackle. the 24-year-old started all 17 games last season and has 13 and a half career sacks. Jordan came back to talk about Max Crosby. That's nice of you, Jordan. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. You know, Crosby, I would say nothing from my understanding

is imminent there. I don't think the Raiders want to trade them. I do think that the market would be robust. You know, when you have an elite pass rusher, with that skill set, it's just you're going to command significant draft capital. But the Raiders, they've had so many bad seasons and so much rostered trauma. I don't know if it's in their best interest to trade their franchise cornerstone over the last, which really been almost the last decade.

Now, you have a second year GM who's very good, John Spitech. You have a first-year head coach at Clint Kubiak. the dichotomy between Pete Carroll and Kubiak, I'm sorry, and Spitech was not healthy. Pete wanted to win now, Spitech wanted to build. I would think that Kubiak and Spitech would be much more aligned when it comes to that. But I would say with Crosby, I'm not willing to say he's going to be moved. I think that would be way too ambitious. But if they decided to, there would be a lot of suitors.

It would not be hard to find a partner. Jordan, we know you're busy, so we want to let you go, but thanks for calling back in. Yeah, and I'm sorry it was so short, but maybe next week or during free agency, when it settles down, we could have a little more time. I appreciate you. All the time, absolutely. You name it. We'll check because you're breaking news. So thanks, Jordan.

We appreciate the time. Thanks, Jordan. That was Jordan Schultz, live from the NFL Combined. The text line, hilarious. What do we see? 269. Jordan was trying to ghost light the score. Oh, he did not go slate.

He actually called back. Yeah, he called back. He fulfilled the role. It wasn't ghosting because not enough time passed for ghosting to have officially been applied to this situation. Also, he acknowledged his absence. Yes. He is at Schultz underscore report on Twitter. He is posting a lot of news, host of the Schultz Report and co-host of the podcast,

funnily titled, Why is Draymond Green talking about football? I love that. Draymond Green. Did you ever see the video of Jermine Green when he went out for the spring for Michigan State? It is hilarious. Was he laughing? I could see him laughing. Those are different sports, football and basketball, and he determined that college basketball was indeed the way for him.

I find his as fervent as we are about wanting Max Crosby. And as much as how everybody knows that he would be such a good fit here on another contending NFL team. he kind of quelled it, didn't he? Like the overall Max Crosby desire, he didn't make it sound as urgent as I feel like we may have thought it was. But see, in the same breath, he's talking about the fact that Crosby has been there for as long as he's been there

and that SpyTech wants to build as a front office guy rather than win now. Is Max Crosby even going to be on the Raiders when they're good again? That's my point. Just let that be a part of your rebuild. building. That's why the one and only time I have said this on 104 and or 670 the score is I think the Raiders should go for the hall. That would make sense for everybody. I'm with it. Like I just told you who their top five highest paid players are. That left tackle let you know,

huh? Doesn't it? Didn't hear any other linemen in that top five. And you know what? The stats on the field show it from a year ago, minus that performance against one Chicago Bears. But I mean, And that just shows you what a passable left tackle gets paid once they hit free agency. 22 and a half for Colton Miller. He's the third highest paid player on their team. But shouldn't that also, outside of the fact that the individuals are who they are, shouldn't the top three be something along those lines? Shouldn't it be the guy you know can wreck a game defensively,

your quarterback, your left tackle, receiver, theoretically, and Ashen Genties in their top five? In most cases, that sets. Guys who can wreck somebody else's passing game, the guy that you pay to protect your quarterback and your quarterback. That sounds like a solid top three. Except we just know it's the Raiders individuals themselves that might lead to the variable here.

And the other variable is, if your quarterback's on a rookie contract, he ain't going to be that high. That's why you have to take advantage of everybody else on your roster. And that's why Gino Smith getting paid when he's getting paid. makes a little bit of a difference here when it comes to what they might want to do. And that's why I think like when you're talking about 35. roughly $8 million, it's going to take some maneuvering. Like you need more assets to rebuild a team. Yeah, you'd love to build around Max Crosby.

But while he has this much value and while he doesn't want to be there, it seems like that would be a solution that fits both parties well. Two first and Tyson Bayesian. Who says no? I mean, people are saying two first and DJ more. Yeah, yeah, I know. I just wanted to mix it up. Fair enough. This is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104-3, the score.

And we are trying to track down a lot of the news coming out from the NFL Combine. We know defensive backs are also speaking today. So that's part of what is going on in Indianapolis as well. And normally that would be the biggest story today. Tight ends are also speaking right now at the Combine. but instead, the biggest news is probably what's going on in the state houses, both in Illinois and in Indiana, where we expect Senate Bill 27, the Bears Stadium proposal in Indiana to pass, and where we also expect to get more information from the pilot bill, the infrastructure bill, that is going on alongside what the Bears funding would be for Arlington Heights. That meeting started at 10 o'clock this morning.

Then there's also this breaking news coming from Stephen Holder. the cults have given quarterback Anthony Richardson permission to seek a trade. That is a cautious tell right there what happened with Anthony Richardson. I mean, but at the same time, I understand why the cults were in the position to draft him and why they did. From a process standpoint, it's just from a result standpoint, that was the risk they ran being where they were in the draft. He was the number four pick back in 2023. Of course, Daniel Jones beat him out quite easily. he was only in two games last year

and then he had the orbital bone fracture during pregame warmups in week six and the rest as they say is history. Didn't someone else get hurt that same day in warmups too? Like it's bizarre. Probably not sure who it was. Was it a bear? Because they got hurt in pregame warmups this year.

Yeah, you're right, Lila. That was a thing, unfortunately. Let's cut that out next season. We're talking about top things if we want to cut out. let's cut out the, oh, I'm almost back from an injury, or I am back from an injury, and I don't feel quite good. Stephen Holder is a great reporter, and he also had this note as well.

One observation from the Combine, the free agent market for wide receiver Alec Pierce is bigger than that of quarterback Daniel Jones. Jones will earn more quarterback versus receiver, but there are more outside teams interested in Pierce. This needs to be a consideration in how they navigate the franchise tag. the same day Anthony Richards and sustained the orbital bone fracture in pregame warmups cornerback Traverius Ward was ruled out before kickoff with a concussion

so that's what I was thinking of before kickoff before kickoff but you never know when he sustained the concussion if it was in pregame warmups maybe something else happened who knows yeah that's not the time where concussion evaluation usually occurs right before the game are you okay man You've got to walk and funny. So news and notes from the Combine coming as not fast and furious.

I wouldn't say that. Too fast, too furious? No. But I'm very compelled to see what happens with that Jervon Dexter discussion because I don't, it doesn't make sense to me. The Dexter? Yes. Well, you might get more compensation because of, I think Jordan put it perfectly.

When you talk about the lack of depth in the free agent class, plus the lack of depth in the draft class, add those two things up. This is a guy you can just trade for and extend, and it's like getting a free agent a year early in his case. But at the same time, what are you replacing him with on the field? Like next. That's a Dennis Allen, Ryan Poles. I mean, we know the roster.

Like, I think you just move Sharmer Turner to the interior at that point, but I don't like that answer. either. Coming up next here on Rahimi Harrison Grotie, we continue our discussion just surrounding the stadium and what we know. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker took to national TV to address that bears push. That hearing is going on right now as we understand, and we'll bring you what he had to say next.