I’m Fascinated to see . . .

[dawhizz]

It's out: https://www.chicagobears.com/video/scouting-the-future-inside-the-bears-2025-draft-1920-football-drive

Some immediate takeaways: You always get the impression that "this is exactly what we wanted to happen" in these videos, but there's not quite as much video from prior to the picks here, so there is some wiggle room here where you don't see the clear "I hope he's still there in a few picks" that we did with, say, Odunze.  There is a quote somewhere early day 2 where they say "we're staying at [pick] 39", which seems to contradict report that they tried to trade up to 38 to take Treyveon Henderson.  Maybe that quote was from after the trade attempts fell through, but it doesn't really feel that way.  There is a place where Poles pretty clearly maps out: we want another pick to hit LB, DB, RB, and OG for day three, which is exactly what they do, so it certainly seems like, for whatever reason, they didn't see edge as as much a need as pretty much everyone else did.  It's funny when they take Hyppolite, Poles is like "are they going to have highlights for him?" recognizing that he might be seen as a reach.

 

[Stinger226]

I like these kind of videos that let you see the backroom of these teams. 

 BJ saying he played the highlight film right before the draft tells me they were targeting Loveland all along. 

It seems like all the position coaches had a lot of input into the picks. 

It seems they stayed at 39 when Burden was available and projected the next 2 players they wanted and got them in the trade back.

BJ was all in on the picks and obviously he had input into those selections. 

Eric Beinemy seemed like the only one very excited to get Monangai. 

I would say they got done what they wanted to in the draft ,at least, they like who they got.