The Chicago Bears and Jaylon Johnson failed to agree on a contract extension earlier this season, but the cornerback still wants to remain with the franchise.

"I want to stay here," Johnson said. "I definitely want to get something done [with Chicago] first but at the end of the day, if something doesn't get done, I'm not opposed to any other options. But I would love to stay here, so that's that.

"I feel like we're building something special, too, especially the guys in the locker room. It's something that I don't think I can get anywhere else. I would like to stay in that and continue to build, make it better."

Johnson, 24, requested permission to seek a trade after not receiving an extension ahead of the NFL's trade deadline on Oct. 31. 

Ryan Poles said he did not want to lose Johnson and requested that the compensation the team would have received had a trade been agreed upon be "a late first and into early second [round draft pick]."

"That didn't happen," Poles said in November. "We are still open to getting a contract done. I know we're going to follow Jaylon's lead on how he wants to go about doing that but we're still open."