DE · Chicago Bears · #98
Montez Sweat
LDE1- College
- Michigan State
- Height
- 6'6"
- Weight
- 270 lb
- Experience
- 8th season
Sacks
2.0▼ 8.0 vs '25
31st of 118 DL
Pressures
8▼ 17 vs '25
38th of 118 DL
Pressure rate
4.4%▲ 1.2 vs '25
12th of 118 DL
Run stops
2▼ 26 vs '25
113th of 118 DL
Tackling
7 tkl
2 tfl · 4 stops · 0 ff
Ranks compare against the 118 qualifying defensive linemen on the 2026 leaderboard.
Week-by-week
Pressures by game, dashed line = 2025 per-game average
2026 game log
| Usage | Tackling | Pass rush | Coverage | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game | ||||||||||||||
| Wk 1 @ CARW | 43 | 63.2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 2 vs MINL | 36 | 69.2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 3 vs PHIW | 38 | 76.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 4 vs NYJW | 22 | 68.8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 5 @ GBL | 43 | 70.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Season | 182 | 69.2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 4 | 8 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 |
How he compares
2026 defensive linemen who qualify · dashed lines mark the group average
Contract
signed 2023 with Bears
$98Mover 4 years
- Avg. per year
- $24.5M
- Guaranteed
- $42M 43%
- 2026 cap hit
- $22.8M 7.4% of the cap
- Signed
- 2023
- Runs through
- 2026
2023
2024
2025
2026 · now
Year 4 of 4 ·
Career by season
| Overall | Tackling | Pass rush | Coverage | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | ||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 5 | 182 | 69.2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 4 | 8 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 17 | 780 | 72.6 | 48 | 43 | 13 | 7.5 | 10.0 | 18 | 25 | 3 | 72.9 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024 | 16 | 616 | 60.9 | 26 | 25 | 9 | 9.4 | 5.5 | 12 | 21 | 1 | 112.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 17 | 763 | 69.5 | 51 | 45 | 11 | 5.6 | 12.5 | 25 | 40 | 1 | 79.2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 2022 | 17 | 731 | 70.0 | 43 | 41 | 13 | 2.3 | 8.0 | 28 | 31 | 3 | 101.4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 10 | 483 | 69.3 | 23 | 19 | 3 | 11.1 | 5.0 | 13 | 24 | 1 | 118.8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020 | 16 | 693 | 66.3 | 44 | 35 | 11 | 10.6 | 9.0 | 20 | 31 | 0 | – | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| 2019 | 16 | 724 | 63.8 | 48 | 39 | 8 | 2.0 | 7.0 | 13 | 27 | 8 | 66.7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Career | 114 | 4,972 | 67.5 | 290 | 251 | 70 | 6.4 | 59.0 | 133 | 207 | 17 | 84.7 | 1 | 21 | 15 | 1 |