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I think Walker's pass rush skills are way overrated, he's more of a blitzer than edge defender. If we draft him at 10 I'll be incredibly disappointed and I think it will signal we've returned to the Phil Emery era style of drafting. There are so many good players in this draft at higher impact positions he can draft before grabbing an off-ball LB. Walker is not as fast or agile as past years smaller elite athletes like Nolan Smith who has had just 7.5 sacks in 2 seasons in Philly. That's with a lot of good talent around him. We're not even close to that kind of Dline talent. Fix the trenches.

That's a very good list although I have not scouted all of those players. I would add the other Iowa State WR. Higgins combined with DJ and Rome would be a coverage nightmare for any team. All 3 can line up at any position. If Steve Smith is right and he goes late 1st he's not even an option but he could be there early 2nd. Even then, I think there are higher needs we should address beforehand like RB, DT, DE.

I don't particularly like Keenum so for him to compete with Bagent for #2 is fine by me. We need people to throw the ball in camp this is a much better option than any UDFA.

They gave you a C+ on Tyler Booker?

Months of work doesn't mean months of work on 1 player. These are media talking heads once they get their notes put together their job is to go out and make money talking about it. That's why they are usually late to the party on adjusting draft boards and even then a lot of that is in response to rumors, as opposed to their own re-evaluation. Even though we all disagree to some extent I find all of our combined research here on this board to be more accurate on trends that will happen in April vs the media. That is players moving up/down on draft day versus where they were slated pre-combine. One of the reasons for that is because of the debate where we force ourselves to dig deeper (as seen above) to validate one side or the other. As far as Banks goes I agree he's the best of the LT options especially if we want that in Week 1 because of Braxton's injury. All of this depends on the mystery of what our staff think about Braxton and Kiran. I listened and watched the mannerisms of Poles and Johnson as they answered questions on them this past week. My suspicion is they are content to go forward with those 2. Most telling was Poles as he talked about how he'd have a logjam of 3 players at one position for camp and he didn't seem to like that idea. Then I reminded myself it's lying season.

They'd put up a statue of you in the new stadium if you pull that off.

I’m good with that plan. But I also suspect whatever they are doing with Thuney will be kept quiet before the draft to keep everyone guessing.

I think Banks would be a much better option at 10 than any of the other 3.

George Pickens is an elite mouth, not an elite athlete.

We'll disagree. I think his physical talent is special. The mental side I haven't seen yet. He's still young and if that light goes on he'll be unstoppable.

These clips of Campbell are not an anomaly because I've found plenty of them. However, I'd be very happy if someone like NE drafted Campbell ahead of us. If we're going to add a LT it'll be Membou or Banks. Both have questions around their fit at LT. The only way for us to truly get insight into the Bears draft board as well as team belief on Braxton/Kiran is if Jeanty, Campbell, Membou, Banks, and I'll add DT Nolen are all available at 10. I think one of Membou or Campbell go before 10. Our entire draft pivots off the LT question.

Warren is a good football player but he's not worth a top 10 pick. He is nothing like Brock Bowers in the open field. Most drafts have a TE with similar skills that can be found late 1st or in 2nd round. IMO he's part of the scouting if we trade back quite a bit maybe to around 20. Laporta was a 2nd Rd pick.

Dexter had far less help next to him than Carter last season. I’d like to see what he can do with a legit starter next to him. I view Billings as a good depth rotation player.

Despite the depth of the draft 15-50 there are still legit blue chip players in this draft. Those are your real difference makers on game day if you can get one. Mason Graham is better than Kenneth Grant if for no other reason because he has better endurance and you'll get more snaps out of him on game day, especially into the 4th quarter. We're sitting at 10 and there aren't 10 blue chips in this draft but someone is going to take a non-blue chip QB ahead of us. There is usually another surprise too...ala Penix last year. Who the true blue chips are is always open for debate. One thing was clear last year: We had Rome ranked as one of them and were very happy when he fell to us. We need to see if we can get an elite talent but if we go with the trade down so someone else can get that elite talent the compensation should be set accordingly.

Membou is #1 on Kyle Long's ranking. Banks #2. Just interesting to get his perspective on players. FWIW he's iffy on Campbell.