The Chicago Bears are "confident" they can sign Montez Sweat to a long-term deal after acquiring the defensive end in a trade with the Washington Commanders earlier this week.

Sweat, 27, is playing on the final year of his rookie deal.

"I feel really confident that we can get a deal done," general manager Ryan Poles said.

Since being drafted in the first round in 2019, Sweat is one of six players to notch at least five sacks in each of the last five seasons.

"I think it's capitalizing right now because you start to lose opportunities," Poles said about trading for Sweat. "If you look at the free agent stack now, it's going to look very different by the time you get to that point of the year because there are so many different opportunities that can pop up in terms of extensions, tags, different things like that. So, we decided with that type of player we wanted to capitalize on that now."