Bears selected Unga, Supplemental Draft Options

[nfoligno]

That's all possible (below comments from Trib) but....

One, the team cuts 7th round rookies every year, and in fact cuts rookies taken higher than the 7th. Not sure why a future 7th would be considered more valuabel than a current 7th.

Two, not sure I get the comment other teams liked him and had a regular draft 4th round grade. If all this was true, why were we able to get him in the 7th round. Any team that had even a 6th round value on him would have won him in the Supp draft. No one put in more than a 7th, and likely only a couple teams (if any others) even did that. If another teams were to sign him off our practice squad, that would mean he has to be on their 53 man roster. Not sure we have to protect him from this as much as the trib makes it sound.

From this clip from an article on the Tribune site it makes it sound as if Unga will probably make the 53 man cut so we will certainly have to wait and see who gets cut. Maybe he will be put at FB but the article also says he has never been put in that role so it would be a project.

[defiantgiant]

That's one of the most unfair comparisons I've ever seen.

Darren Sproles is on SD, who have a great OL.
Leon Washington is on NYJ, who have a great OL.
Garrett Wolfe on CHI, how have a horrible OL. One of the worst in the league.

A better comparison is between him and Forte, a guy who had the rock ALL year.

That's not a better comparison - Wolfe and Forte are entirely different running backs. Forte's an all-purpose workhorse back. I'm not saying he doesn't have to break a big run every now and again, but he can be successful just getting 4 or 5 yards at a time. Obviously, last season he couldn't even consistently do that, thanks to injuries and bad line play. But Wolfe's whole job is to break big runs. That's what he was drafted for, and that's what he's on the roster for. A bellcow runner like Forte is supposed to carry the ball 20 times a game, so it's OK if he can't rip off a big gain. Your scatback's supposed to get big chunks of yards, so it's OK if he can't carry it 20 times a game. Wolfe can't do either effectively, which is why he's been relegated to special teams.

I agree with you that our line played poorly, certainly worse than the Jets or the Chargers. But I think that probably had a bigger impact on Forte's role than Wolfe's. This is oversimplifying things a great deal, but I tend to think about it this way: the o-line's mostly responsible for the difference between a 5 yard run and a 1 yard run, whereas the running back's mostly responsible for the difference between a 5 yard run and a 20 yard run. Look at it this way - with a steady diet of 3-to-5-yard runs, a blown block and a stop for a loss will tank Forte's average. A good scatback can get stopped for a loss a few times, because when the line does manage to spring him, he's supposed to go for 10 or 15. Wolfe usually doesn't do that even when he gets a block, though, which is the problem.