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Bears fans have clamored for Ryan Pace to swing a trade for a kicker from the west coast, just not this one.

While Robbie Gould remains with the San Francisco 49ers, Chicago is sending a conditional 2021 seventh-round pick to the Oakland Raiders in exchange for kicker Eddy Pineiro.

An undrafted rookie free agent out of Florida last offseason, Pineiro was 3-for-3 in one preseason game for the Raiders last season before landing on injured reserve with a groin injury.

In college, he was the Gators all-time leader in career field goal accuracy, hitting 88.4 percent of his kicks. In 2017, he hit 17-of-18 field goals, going 2-for-2 from beyond 50 yards.

Pineiro went somewhat viral for hitting an 81-yard field goal in practice back in 2017, showing plenty of the leg strength the Bears seem to desire in the position.

He joins a kicker competition in Chicago with former Pittsburgh undrafted free agent Chris Blewitt and former Alliance of American Football kicker Elliott Fry, who both survived the team’s eight-player tryout at rookie minicamp last weekend.