The Chicago Bears have now lost three straight games which has opened the idea of the team becoming sellers at the trade deadline. A name that was floated before the season is Robert Quinn, and now that the team is struggling his name is coming right back up in these talks.
While the team may have listened to calls on Quinn, they decided that Khalil Mack would fetch them a better return. The Chicago Bears may have hoped that Quinn could improve his value this season, but so far it looks like it will be even harder to trade him right now than it would have been back in the summer.
3. Robert Quinn’s lack of production
This summer we wrote about the possibility of Robert Quinn falling off. Quinn has a weird trend where his best seasons typically come after down years, and his down years are usually after some of his best. So, after an 18.5 sack season he would obviously not be putting up those numbers, but just how much would he fall off?
The answer is that he has fallen off enough that is may cost the team when it comes to trading him. So far this season Quinn has just one sack, pushing him on pace for three. That is not going to pick up intrigue across the NFL.
His win rate is 11.5% when it was 21.9% last season, and his pass rush productivity is down from 14.9 to 6.6. These are huge drop-offs across the board, and there is not much for teams to poke at and say that they can get more.
Beyond that, Quinn has been horrible in run defense. He often is not gap-sound, and sells out to rush the passer on run downs. That would be great if he was winning as a pass rusher, but now he looks old, and confused on defense.
The Chicago Bears tried to wait until the trade deadline to get more desperation from teams, but they hurt themselves because the play of Robert Quinn is killing what they could get back.