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Bears trade back 9 spots to pick up an early 5th. Bad trade value for Bears there. 9 spots that early is worth a mid 4th, should have gotten a 5th and 6th for that move. Poles underwhelming me today.

Yeah again, I saw him mocked to the Bears in the 3rd.

Logan Jones, Center from Iowa is the pick, not a fan so early in the draft. Feels like a reach.

Understand the pick but felt that was a little early. Feels like they could've gotten him at the next 2nd rounder.

McCoy has injury concerns, so Hill seems like the choice.

Damn you Patriots, traded up and grabbed Jacas 2 picks before Bears.

Edge - Young*, Howell*, Parker*, Jacas, Thomas DT - McDonald*, Miller, Hunter LB - Allen*, Rodriguez, Hill Jr CB - McCoy*, Terrell*, Hood*, Ponds, Cisse IOL - Bisontis, Pregnon A lot of impact guys still left on the board. The Bears should be able to get 1, if not 2 of the guys listed, and most are top 55 rated players. The guys with asterisks had 1st round or early 2nd round projections.

Bryant, Thieneman, and Gordon really make the secondary super versatile. This was a weaker draft overall, but Thieneman was one of the few elite picks even though it was at Safety.

Thieneman should not have been there at 25. Great pick.

Yeah I never considered him because I thought he would be long gone. Crazy to think they went from Byard+Brisker to Bryant+Thieneman.

Great pick, didn't expect him to be there. Safety a huge strength for defense. Most mocks had him going in the top 20, good value at 25.

The board is going to dictate so much at #25, so I think the top 3 available will be McNeil-Warren-S, McDonald-DL, and Lomu-OT that they could target. Mesidor would be awesome, but I don't think he will be there at #25, and age is a slight concern, so Faulk would be the consolation prize at Edge there.

Caleb's 3rd season, 2nd under Ben Johnson. 2nd season for DA at DC, no other major coaches left. This is the SB window. The last time the Bears had back-to-back winning seasons and playoff appearances was 2005 and 2006, finishing 11-5 and then 13-3, ultimately losing the SB. However, the last time they won playoff games in back-to-back seasons was 1984 and 1985, culminating in the historic SB win. The 84-91 stretch was awesome but so frustrating. They should've had 2 Super Bowls and probably 3 visits. Way too many one and dones.

So they basically traded Hendrickson and #10 for Lawrence. That's beyond terrible.

To have Burrow, Chase, and Higgins for the last 5 years and not have a playoff appearance in the last 3 is crazy. They peaked too early, in Burrow's 2nd season making it all the way to the Super Bowl. Pretty wild to look back and see that they had a 20-16 lead in the Super Bowl at the 2-min warning in the 4th quarter and lost.

As expected, but I assume they are still working on an extension.

A top 10 pick for a 29-yr old DT is wild. Bengals lost Hendricks and Pick #10 for Lawrence. Yeah Gabriel needs to stop being so absolute on everything.

With Receivers Odunze, Burden, and Loveland as top 40 picks, I just don't see the Bears drafting another one in the first few rounds. There are other areas of need even if WR is truly BPA there.

Glad we didn't get Vrabel. 👀

What is absolutely crazy about this is if Cunningham goes to another team to be the GM (the same position he is now), but doesn't have a President of Football Operations over him, the Falcons would get comp picks. If the league really cared about any of this, they would require teams to be structured the same way, just like they do for players and the roster limits. To me, they should force all teams to make the GM the head football guy, and they can make as many fake positions they want around that position, but that one is the head football decision maker. If they add a President, it is not recognized by the league.

The defense was way worse than most metrics. It was clearly a bottom-5 unit. Bottom 5 in yards per play, both for the rush and pass, 5th most Passing TDs allowed, and bottom 5 in TFL.

From the league meetings, it sounds like Trapilo will be out for the entire season.

The Mock Draft Consensus has McNeil-Warren, McDonald, Woods, and Young as the highest probable. On the Big Board, 25-29 have some good players (Woods -DL, McNeil-Warren-S, Parker-Edge, Miller-OT, McDonald-DT) with 3 of the top 5 listed as probable for the Bears. I would not be too upset if they went Safety at 25, BUTTTTTTT, I would hate to put that much capital into the Safety position considering they just gave out their biggest FA contract to Bryant. DT needs some love.