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Clear your cards! We have a Bingo. The Bears have to become successful at drafting and developing O and D lineman. They have been trading picks and paying for FAs for far too long. Draft the best LT and DT in round 1 and 2. Draft line every year until you are set with youth in the top 3 rounds. The silence on the top OT tells me they are blowing smoke.

I don't think they will go Edge in the 1st, Odeyingbo has a $20M cap hit in 2026 and $19.5M in 2027, I don't think Poles pays him that much to be Edge3. Billings is on the last year of his deal, and Jarrett is older. If the talk of Dexter sliding outside is true, that makes Edge even less of a priority with a very high-draft pick. Braxton is still recovering, his status is unknown and Kiran is still a question mark. OT has to be high on their list. Kmet is the only TE signed past this season, if he gets injured, Smythe is TE1. So TE will be selected in the first 4 picks. OT, DT, TE, and RB will most likely be the first 4 picks. S and WR potentially in the 2nd or 3rd is someone drops.

Good signing with solid value. Same with Gordon.

Very true. Any player invited to the combine gets all the medical stuff out of the way. Could you imagine getting full medical eval on multiple team visits? That would be hell...

Poles has identified the core players and sign them. Brisker's health is the key to need at S , if healthy, he will be here next year also. If Byard plays well, he did last year, they could bring him back. Backups are solid NFL players.

I expect us to take anyone of the blue chip players if there, otherwise Mykel Williams is my focus right now. I heard a podcast and can't remember the football guy but he mentioned we were 6 deep at DT. Dexter, Billings, Jarrett, Cris Williams, Zach Pickens and Johnathan Ford. Lots of questions past the first 3 but we do have those bodies on the roster. DE is much thinner.

I love this move. Edwards has played above his current deal, now locked up for 3 more years. The 2026 Defense has Sweat, Odeyingbo, Jarrett, Dexter, Edmunds, Edwards, Gordon, Johnson, and Stevenson. Safety is the only position without a starter signed thru at least 2026. Edmunds probably a cap casualty, but that is a ton of continuity on the defensive side of the ball. Safety may be a higher priority with Brisker's health and Byard's age. The entire starting offense is also signed thru 2026 besides Thuney and the LT. So right now 9 of 11 on offense and defense signed thru 2026.

I'm not complaining about KJ, I'd love to have him, it's just Junkins will be a very good player, better than Henderson. Henderson is a Swift type in an offense, we need a compliment back with power.

The main reason for the combine is medicals and they get to interview players. The measuables are secondary.

Highly likely one of those 2 are our pick at 10.

If Warren is there, I think we take him , and 72 is the sweet spot for RBs, probably there.

Edmonds hasn't played up to the contract but he hasn't been playing bad. Allen may be the answer to getting our monies worth. The only left is to resign Thuney.

This is excellent news. We really are going to be a team for several years. Edwards has been playing very well. I wonder how long Edmunds will stick around, we are paying him a fortune. He's got all the measurables, but his production has been lacking. Maybe the new scheme and coaches will unlock him, otherwise, his days could be numbered - probably after this year. It gets very cheap to cut him next year.

Will be interesting to see who, if anyone, from the Bears are in attendance.

I don't know what is worse, Henderson at 10 or Hunter at 7? Both are soooo bad.

for real. how can anyone have Henderson at 10?

for sure, but KJ is more than just power, I'm just saying he has more power than Hampton. Hampton has the body, but doesnt seem to really know how to use it.

its funny, we are all so educated now on this draft. this board is excellent. we debate, argue, but in the end I think this community is more educated on the draft players and scenarios than most Bears talk shows, no less other boards.

This would be nice, especially with Ratledge or equivalent in the 3rd. Addresses trenches and adds playmakers. One thing that I have considered when looking at the roster, I doubt they add a TE and a WR in the first 4 picks. I think it will be one or the other, or neither.

Holy crap, MJD is an idiot. Henderson selected at 10, no way, in the 2nd, sure, that is at least believable.

Kiper's latest, for what it's worth, has the Bears taking Henderson with their 2nd round pick.

Need to Judkins to that list. He's got a lot of power.

I also want to add, that these rankings and projections are just based on these players right now. None of them can anticipate what might happen to a player when they get good coaching. When I say I dont like a player, I am saying that i wouldn't bet on them to be good in the NFL. But do I know, for example, What Grant from W&M would be like after Roushar gets him? Of course not. Or what Campbell could become if he got better at hand fighting? Of course I dont. These are always just guesses based on college tape. Some players will surprise us in the NFL. It's not the same at all as seeing NFL tape over several years like Fields and Eberflus. We now know they will never be great. Thats a fact. The rookies? Those are projections, bets, guesses. Theyre mostly probably right, but they wont always be right. Some will surprise us. But who?

This is the math for sure. Where ytou project Ersery to go is a BIG part of what you can do at 10. If you think you can get him at 39, then that makes it easier to go BPA at 10 for sure. But if it's someone like Grant there at 39, and you think you need a LT, then I think you gotta go Banks. Id be Ok with this in general, but who is the Free Agent LT that's still available? Of course i cant know what they think of Amagadje. Maybe he is equivalent to Ersery in their minds, and will be a ready starter for this year? I dont see it from the film, but he is raw. Who knows what they think?

I think that is a real possibility. I would personally look at moving up depending on if those guys went early and if there value lined up to what you were doing. But if you liked the 3 evenly and had them as say a 25th overall pick and 2 were gone and one was left and you were at picking 31 - presuming they were higher on list, I would move up. Knowing we have Jones and Kiran - I’d also be fine if we couldn’t get fair value in a trade and liked the board and went a different route. I certainly wouldn’t reach. If Bears hadn’t done what they did earlier I may say no they have to reach because it is too important for Caleb but I don’t feel that way now.