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While he's bigger than your standard inside receiver, he ran a lot of quick screens and inside routes in college and shows some good move and speed in the open field. Check out the last highlight here: Also interesting to note that he's only 20 years old, so he was putting up his most productive years when he was 18 and 19.

I do really like this draft, but it's hard to put in perspective because I don't really see any immediate starters, which is less a criticism of the draft and more a reflection of what a good job Emery did of filling the gaps in this team in FA. While the Beas needed depth and future starters, there were very few spots where you figured you really needed a draft pick to come in and start like we have in years past. Right tackle or guard maybe, but Fluker went early and I'm not sure any draft guard outside of Cooper or Warmack will start over Carimi, though I think Long has a shot at it. At LB, as long as Williams and Anderson are healthy, I think they start, but that might have been the case with any drafted LB. A high pick at CB might have been able to start at the nickel and a high draft pick at WR might have been able to start in the slot, but other than that, there weren't a ton of starting holes left. So, I'm considering any production from any of these draft picks gravy, and we'll see where they are at this time next year.

To be honest, I'm just searching "chicago bears" in Twitter. Most of the players are breaking the news themselves . . .

Zach Minter, DT, Montana State Michael Ford, RB, LSU

From what I can gather from twitter (though it's hard to figure out), looks like so far the Bears have signed: PJ Longergan, C, LSU Tress Way, P, Oklahoma Demontre Hurst, CB, Oklahoma Brent Russell, DT, Georgia Southern Mark Harrison, WR, Rutgers Marcus Rucker, WR, Memphis

While I'm weary of him based on the fact that it appears he quit on his team last year after some hard coaching, I really like what I see in the videos.

Might as well put them all in one place. Try to keep it to signings, not "I would like to see the Bears get this guy."

Thing is, as much as it was nice to add Anderson and Williams, they are both on 1 year deals and one is coming off injury and the other suspension. Before today, we were one injury/suspension away from starting Blake Costanzo at LB. Now we have quality depth today and potential starters next year. Makes a lot of sense.

Any of these would be fine by me.

I hate to even type it, but I think it's Lawrence Okoye. http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/4/15/4226...-olympic-discus

The other big takeaway from this draft for the Bears IMO: Don't listen to any "experts" in the media when it comes to the Bears. We hear all sorts of people from the Trib or the Sun-Times or national media or bloggers say what they are hearing as far as guys the Bears like. I'm pretty sure we never heard either Kyle Long or Jon Bostic at any point.

I'm really impressed by the tape of Da'Rick Rodgers. He could learn a lot from Marshall. Maybe former SEC will be good enough . . . Also think we'll trade down at least once today and come away with a QB, WR, DT, and CB.

Intersting that both of the Bears' picks had fathers who played in the NFL.

It sounds like they were wrestling in the draft room between CB and LB. Hard to say what happens between now and the Bears pick, but some really good fits at CB are left at the moment (including B.W. Webb, Jordan Poyer, Marc Anthony, Steve Williams, Nickell Roby). I have to think someone will still be around, though the value at QB (Barkley? Nassib? Wilson?) or WR (Swope? Patton? Bailey?) might be too much to pass up. Or do they further boost the OL with a center (Jones? Schwenke?)? Two really interesting names to me, given the Bears obvious focus on great atheletes (and past history with small school players) are Brandon Williams, DT, from Missouri Southern State and Da'Rick Rodgers, WR, from Tennessee Tech. Lots of ways to go. And after all that said, I will probably be some projected 6th round kicker . . .

I thought it would be Brown too, but the Bears did plenty of homework on Brown and apparently liked Bostic better, probably because he's a better potential fit at MLB, is a bit faster, and has fewer durability concerns. I like the depth at CB and WR more than at LB, so I'm OK with this pick.

Surprised it wasn't Brown, but the Bears obviously did a lot of homework on him and liked Bostic more. He was one of the faster LBs at the combine and is probably a little bit better fit in the middle than Brown. I don't think this is a very deep MLB draft (whereas I think there's some depth at CB and WR), so I'm OK with it.

Press conference for Mr. Long supposed to be at 3 pm. Perhaps we'll have more to place in the appropriate column after that . . .

Interesting that there's no Kyle Long on this list, though hearing Emery's quotes, they obviously met with him.

I now fully expect this year's draft to mirror last years: Reach in the first, followed by the best available WR in the second to ease the sting. I'm thinking Robert Woods.

I wonder if that would have been Kyle Long had the Bears not taken him . . .

I don't necessarily love the pick, but considering how fast OL prospects were coming off the board, the Bears couldn't feel comfortable that a guy they would want would be there in the 2nd, and they don't have a third. If you wanted OL addressed in this draft (and most did), and the Bears really didn't have any suitors to trade down, I don't see how this is a "terrible" pick.

I'm pretty convinced the rumors we're hearing are calculated to prompt a trade. The Te'o stuff is trying to entice the Vikings and the Ravens to move up, and the recent Trufant rumor is to get the attention of the Falcons (who are thought to be targeting a CB). I really don't put much stock in it.

The more I think about it, while he makes some sense from a fit standpoint, I really don't see the Bears drafting Teo. Teo doesn't need any more attention than he's already going to get on an NFL team, and the Bears probably don't want any more attention on their next MLB than they are already going to get either. Drafting Teo would put so much pressure on him to be the next Brian Urlacher and no one should have live with that. It's a media circus that would endure all season.

Agree. I would swap Taylor for DeAndre Hopkins or Sly Williams, and Otten for either Barrett Jones (even with Schwenke, he's a steal in the 5th) or Nickell Robey and be reasonably happy.

I don't have a huge problem with it, except I'm very much not in the "draft a TE" camp and would actually like the draft very much if Ertz was swapped out for a WR. After this same staff (including Emery) kept making sly comparisons between E-Rod and Aaaron Hernandez, I don't know why you don't give him a chance to perform like it withe Bennett in the Gronk role. If that doesn't work, fine, let's grab a TE early next year. But let's give him a chance to live up to the comparisons they've been making. Meanwhile, our fourth WR is Eric Weems and Earl Bennett hasn't exactly stepped up. Give someone like DeAndre Hopkins or Keenan Allen at #35, and I'm happy.