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Daniel Jones signed for $40M a year (lmao), so Barkley got tagged. RB is going to be interesting with Pollard, Jacobs, and Barkley off the board. Media thinks Monty will end up in ATL (Pace) or KC (Nagy), so we will see. I would rather draft one (fresh legs) than sign one, unless it is a vet minimum guy for depth.

The LVN not starting thing was weird, which makes his stats all that more impressive though. He did more with fewer snaps than anyone in college football. If you "project" him though, he does fit into a poor man's JJ Watt role. 19.5 TFL and 13.5 sacks as a freshman and sophomore in total is impressive. From what I have read, he was a rotational guy with seniors and juniors ahead of him. I am not advocating making him a first rounder, but if he is there in the 2nd (after getting an early 2nd in a trade), you have to at least consider him.

Center has been a black hole for the Bears for the last few years with Mustipher getting most of the starts. He is ok for a backup or spot starter, but not your primary center. That has killed the Bears more than any other position on the OLine. I like Jones and there is no reason not to think he will improve. He knows the areas he needs to work on and I don't think the Bears will target a LT in FA or the draft. They will concentrate on C and RT like you said Mongo.

Van Ness had the 2nd best 3-cone and 20-yd shuttle amongst DEs. Foskey was 6th and 5th respectively. Those are some pretty mobile numbers.

Using only RAS scores for drafting, with 2 trade downs (IND and TEN), picked up several additional picks and future first rounders (2x 2024, 1x 2025) and this: Limited options on OL at the pick numbers. That would be an insane draft, to get 2x WRs, 2x Edge, DL, LB, TE, and HB, all top 10 RAS guys for their skill positions. These were also guys that produced, so not just RAS scores.

DE: Adetomiwa Adebawore DE 2023 Northwestern 9.85 9.85 YaYa Diaby DE 2023 Louisville 9.85 9.85 DJ Johnson DE 2023 Oregon 9.35 9.35 Isaiah Foskey DE 2023 Notre Dame 9.32 9.32 Derick Hall DE 2023 Auburn 9.23 9.23 Lukas Van Ness DE 2023 Iowa 9.22 9.22 Nolan Smith DE 2023 Georgia 9.21 9.21 Byron Young DE 2023 Tennessee 9 9

OL: Jon Gaines II OG 2023 UCLA 9.95 9.95 Sidy Sow OG 2023 Eastern Michigan 9.93 9.93 Blake Freeland OT 2023 Brigham Young 9.82 9.82 Braeden Daniels OG 2023 Utah 9.65 9.65 Earl Bostick Jr. OT 2023 Kansas 9.58 9.58 Anthony Bradford OG 2023 Louisiana State 9.56 9.56 Jaelyn Duncan OT 2023 Maryland 9.46 9.46 Darnell Wright OT 2023 Tennessee 9.45 9.45 Broderick Jones OT 2023 Georgia 9.44 9.44 Malaesala Aumavae-Laulu OG 2023 Oregon 9.34 9.34 Nick Saldiveri OT 2023 Old Dominion 9.1 9.1

TEs: Zack Kuntz TE 2023 Old Dominion 10 10 Luke Musgrave TE 2023 Oregon State 9.95 9.95 Darnell Washington TE 2023 Georgia 9.85 9.85 Luke Schoonmaker TE 2023 Michigan 9.75 9.75 Tucker Kraft TE 2023 South Dakota State 9.58 9.58 Sam LaPorta TE 2023 Iowa 9.26 9.26 Will Mallory TE 2023 Miami 9.19 9.19 I am thinking LaPorta here.

LBs: Jack Campbell LB 2023 Iowa 9.98 9.98 Trenton Simpson LB 2023 Clemson 9.86 9.86 Yasir Abdullah LB 2023 Louisville 9.47 9.47 Owen Pappoe LB 2023 Auburn 9.24 9.24 Anfernee Orji LB 2023 Vanderbilt 9.05 9.05 Noah Sewell LB 2023 Oregon 9.04 9.04 Campbell is off the charts AND produced on the field.

DTs: Jalen Redmond DT 2023 Oklahoma 9.63 9.63 Gervon Dexter DT 2023 Florida 9.21 9.21 Bryan Bresee DT 2023 Clemson 9.07 9.07 Colby Wooden DT 2023 Auburn 9.01 9.01 Zacch Pickens DT 2023 South Carolina 8.97 8.97 Keeanu Benton DT 2023 Wisconsin 8.65 8.65 Moro Ojomo DT 2023 Texas 8.56 8.56 Dante Stills DT 2023 West Virginia 8.44 8.44 If they don't go Carter, they will probably target one of the guys in bold.

Here were the top WRs, with a RAS over 9: Bryce Ford-Wheaton WR 2023 West Virginia 9.96 9.96 Jonathan Mingo WR 2023 Ole Miss 9.93 9.93 Andrei Iosivas WR 2023 Princeton 9.92 9.92 Matt Landers WR 2023 Arkansas 9.91 9.91 Rashee Rice WR 2023 SMU 9.65 9.65 Cedric Tillman WR 2023 Tennessee 9.56 9.56 Jalin Hyatt WR 2023 Tennessee 9.46 9.46 Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR 2023 Ohio State 9.39 9.39 Michael Wilson WR 2023 Stanford 9.34 9.34 A.T. Perry WR 2023 Wake Forest 9.24 9.24 Justin Shorter WR 2023 Florida 9.23 9.23 Marvin Mims Jr. WR 2023 Oklahoma 9.13 9.13 My guess is Poles gets one of the guys in bold. My March 6th prediction.

For those wanting to see RAS scores, I uploaded Excel spreadsheets for this year's draft and All-Time. RAS.xlsx RAS_ALLTIME.xlsx

RAS scores are a pretty neat way to summarize a player's athleticism. Here are the top 10 players for this year, all positions: I had Gonzalez, Campbell, and Mingo already on the radar. Campbell with Sanborn would be a pretty impressive duo at LB. With sub packages 85% of the time, they usually only have 2 LBs on the field.

Poles confirms he has been in discussion for the 1st pick with 3 teams and says he can get a 2024 AND 2025 1st! https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/03/06/ryan-poles-chicago-bears-nfl-combine-draft-peter-king-fmia/?cid=fmiatw Peter King said this about potential trade partners: My guess is the 3 teams are Houston, Indy, and Carolina, but to get 3 1sts, I assume it is Carolina. Carolina has 2x 2nd rounders too. Would you do the #1 for #9, 2024 1st, 2025 1st, and #61? Unless you can guarantee you can trade down twice from 1 to 2 and 2 to 4, or 1 to 4 and 4 to something else, I think this would be a great haul, even if it is only a late 2nd. That would still give the Bears 4 picks in the top 64 and 3 picks within 11 picks from 54-64. They could then take the late 4th they got from the Quinn trade and pair that with the CAR or BAL 2nd and move back into the mid-40s in the 2nd.

ARob is available, he had some good chemistry with Fields, not! Who is going to willingly trade for that dude after seeing him taking every play off that he wasn't targeted?

Some really intriguing prospects. The Bears have to trade back and gain at least a mid to low 2nd rounder, to get 4 picks in the top 64. Based on the quality of players I am seeing, they should get 4 starters from that group.

Yeah this is the perfect scenario for the Bears. If ARZ's pick is in play, even if Houston considers going Anderson at #2, if the Colts stayed put they would likely get no better than the QB3 and possibly QB4. The only other option for IND is to trade with ARZ to move up one, but that still might only get you QB3 if 2 come off the board 1-2.

The Bears are coming away with at least two of these top dudes. I can see them going DL with 2 of their top 4 picks (hopefully with some trade downs).

https://www.drafttek.com/NFL-Trade-Value-Chart-Rich-Hill.asp?RequestTeam=chi Here is the "new" trade chart. 1 = 1000 9+39+61= 626, next year's 1st and 2nd = 429 + 626 = 1055 So that makes a lot of sense. For CAR, can they afford to give up 5 picks in the top 61 over the next two years? I would be all over that because the Bears could use a combination of picks to move back into the back end of the first (if they wanted to).

I am hearing people say this is going to hurt the Bears chances to trade down. In reality, it will help them because if Levis was projected to go #5 because of Young, Stroud, Carter, and Anderson, he is now #4. So in reality, the Bears double trade down scenario with HOU, then IND looks a lot more realistic.

Tragic event. This type of crazy stuff happens all the time. I am surprised more people don't get caught or killed/injured. These dudes with incredible opportunities are so dumb some times. If you have that type of opportunity, why risk it partying (most of the time underage). Don't these guys know most places have traffic cams, even if they are not for red lights they record everything. If there is video of this, it will be a lot worse for him.

That would be savage.

Yeah I am no expert, just collating the major big boards that are out there. That is where Skoronski is listed. Not that he will go in the top 10, but he is on their top 10 big boards.

Payne franchised after the Wentz cut, as expected. Hopefully the Bears can scoop up D. Jones from Denver.

Here are the teams with extra picks in the top 3 rounds: HOU: #2, #12, #33, #65, #73 SEA: #5, #20, #37, #51, #83 DET: #6, #18, #48, #55, #81 CAR: #9, #39, #61, #93 PHI: #10, #30, #62, #94 PIT: #17, #32, #49, #80 NYG: #25, #57, #89, #100 Even after blowing the 1st pick, HOU is still in decent shape, 5 picks in the top 73. SEA and DET both have 4 picks in the top 60. When I was thinking about trading partners, I was looking into which teams had more flexibility to move up. Compared to someone like IND, who the Bears are linked to, would basically not pick again until the 4th round if they move up to #1.