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Some other names available: Stone Forsythe - OT Cade Johnson - CB Shakur Brown - CB Charles Snowden - Edge Tamorrion Terry - WR Austin Watkins Jr. - WR Kary Vincent Jr. - CB Patrick Johnson - Tulane Shi Smith - WR Tre Nixon - WR Israel Mukuamu - CB Demetric Felton - WR Kawaan Baker - WR Marvin Wilson - DT Bryce Thompson - CB Quincy Roche - Edge Will Sherman - OT

The Bears have pick 24, 37, and 44 in the 6th. I would love to see at least one WR and CB. Still a few decent prospects available. Some guys with 3rd and 4th round grades.

Fields is all business. I love the demeanor, let's go to work! I can see the offense rallying around him immediately compared to Dalton and Foles. If Fields does have that type of mental aptitude, he is going to be the opening day starter. Add that with Jenkins who wants to pancake a defender on every play, and this offense is really close to being sneaky good. If they keep Miller, who knows, maybe he is a wild card and plays better catching passes from Fields. Right now though, ARob, Mooney, Miller, Goodwin, Monty, Cohen, Williams, Graham, Kmet is a pretty solid skill position group. Those would be the top 9 pass catchers, then probably Ridley or Wims. With Jenkins, the line of Leno-Whitehair-Mustipher-Daniels-Jenkins with Ifedi as a swingman, the offense is pretty solid.

A lot of people have heartburn over the amount of picks given up. Out of all of them, giving up the 3rd this year seemed a little excessive, but in reality, it wasn't that bad. Fields was a consensus top 10 pick, some had him as high as #2. Most had Jenkins as a late first, and some even mocked him to the Bears at #20. So if you think about it that way and consider Jenkins a mid-20's pick, the Bears essentially paid a 2021 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th and a 2022 4th to swap firsts for Fields, Jenkins and an early 5th. To be fair, I valued Fields at #6 and Jenkins at #26. Using full value for the trade value chart, where team's normally discount next year's picks by one round, the trade is literally even. If you consider the next year pick discount the Bears are ahead by the equivalent to a mid-2nd round pick: Bears get: Pick #6 - 1600 Pick #26 - 700 Pick #151 - 29 2329 Other teams: Pick #20 - 850 Pick #52 - 380 Pick #84 - 170 Pick #164 - 24 Pick #204 - 8 2022 #20 - 850 (full value) 2022 #125 - 47 (full value) 2329 If you take the discount into account, you can slide Fields to #9 and Jenkins back to #39 (his original) slot. Meaning the Bears paid 2 slots to get Jenkins a year early. Not bad either way.

In a way, I don't mind Pace doing this, getting 2 sure fire starters, vs only 1 and 2 possibles. With the crazy season, this draft was very unpredictable. So get the locks early and try to find depth later.

He was rated as high as #2, so to get him at #11 while only giving up next year's first and no 2nd or 3rd is pretty solid.

He has played and won against elite talent. Trubisky had one good year against average talent. At #11 he is a steal.

Fields......

Wow

Feels about right, if Bears want Fields, draft capital won't be as much to move up to get him.

So what about these guys based on Parcells criteria? Ian Book - 84.0 QBR, 45 games, 8948 yds, 63.8%, 7.8 Y/A, 72 TD, 20 INT, 147.0 Rating, 1517 Rushing Yds, 17 TD Sam Ehlinger - 76.6 QBR, 46 games, 11436 yds, 62.5%, 7.7 Y/A, 94 TD, 27 INT, 145.0 Rating, 1903 Rushing Yds, 33 TD

Yeah, I am souring on Lance. He played inferior competition and has very limited experience. He should've torched those teams and he was only above average.

What scares me about Jones is thinking of the talent around him; he had 2 WRs that may go in the top 10 of the same draft (Waddle and Smith), as well as Najee Harris (RB) and Alex Leatherwood (OL) who should both be drafted in the top 50. That is 4 Offensive teammates from the same draft class. With guys like Landon Dickerson (OL) and Deonte Brown (OL) who both will go in the first 3 rounds, that's 60% of his offensive players (not including him). How many other players had that much talent on offense? Chris Simms, who is actually a decent analyst compared to some of the others ranked the QBs this way: 1. Wilson 2. Lawrence 3. Jones 4. Mond 5. Fields 6. Lance https://www.si.com/nfl/49ers/news/chris-simms-quarterback-rankings-for-the-2021-nfl-draft I was shocked he had Mond so high, and Fields and Lance so low. Simms on Mond: Last year he ranked them like this: 1. Burrow 2. Herbert 3. Love 4. Tagolvailoa 5. Eason 2019 1. Kyler Murray 2. Drew Lock 3. Dwayne Haskins 4. Ryan Finley 5. Jarrett Stidham 6. Daniel Jones 2018 1. Lamar Jackson 2. Josh Allen 3. Baker Mayfield 4. Sam Darnold 5. Josh Rosen So he gets most of the evals right. Love and Haskins are his biggest mistakes, but we haven't seen Love, so we don't really know. Haskins turned out to be a bust but he did have him after Murray and Lock. Jury still out on Daniel Jones.

All I am saying is the Chiefs are basically bringing him in for a one-year deal, which makes it a rental. They may get a comp pick for him, but that would be at least 2 years away, so unless they win it all, they will be worse off in 2022 than they are today.

Here we go: 1. If Fields makes it to #4, the Bears move up to get him in a package that includes Miller (with the news of ATL wanting to move Julio) and obviously a bunch of picks. 2. If the Bears can't move up, Pace will trade down and take Mond in the late first. 3. A QB will be drafted for the first time since Trubisky. 4. Pace will trade up at least once in the draft. 5. Pace will draft at least one D2 player. 6. Pace will have conviction on all his picks. 7. Pace will mention the amount of collaboration the team had on all their picks. 8. At least 2x UDFA's will make the roster.

No, I am tracking. From the Ravens standpoint, it doesn't make sense either. If Brown was that good, you sign him and trade Stanley who is going to cost $20M+ very soon. The Chiefs are going all in this year. They will probably move on from Hill and Kelce within the next year or two, but it's not like you can just plug and play with any player. Those two are top 5 at their positions and the Chiefs will be lucky to replace them with anyone near their levels.

Kelce will be 32 this year; for TEs, he is nearing that steep cliff from elite to average. For next season, the Chiefs have 119M locked into 5 players with very little wiggle room. That doesn't count Hill at $20.6M or Hitchens at $12.7M, which if you add them would be $152M for 7 players with a need to get 44 additional players under the cap with $48M left. Which still doesn't account for guys like Butker ($4.2M) and Edwards-Helaire ($2.9M) which will eat more of that cap than a vet minimum or rookie deal. Brown is set to only make $3.6M this year and will be due for a huge payday after this season. KC clearly sees this as a one-year deal because they will not have the cap space to bring him back in 2022. KC will more than likely let him walk and get a nice 3rd or 4th round comp pick for him, but was all of that worth it for one year of Brown over a rookie? Time will tell. Obviously the Ravens thought otherwise.

The known commodity is always better, but Brown is going to be really expensive. All the Ravens picks equals pick #23, even with some comp back, that gets you a solid OT on a rookie deal with 5-years of potential. Brown is basically a one-year deal.

KC gave up a first-rounder who could've been an OT on a rookie deal or packaged all the picks they traded and moved up to get a better one.

You have to believe the Bears are talking to them. #20 to #8 would probably cost #20 and 2022 1st. Would you do that for Fields, Lance, or Jones?

Yeah, looks good as OT, CB, and QB are obvious needs. Would like at least one WR in one of those 6th round picks.

Great move, fills a hole. He was very solid last year. We still should draft one, but this allows the team to pick one up later in the draft. Priority #1- CB, OT, QB Priority #2 - WR, ILB Priority #3 - S

Where city/town in Thailand are you at? That sounds awesome. Has anyone been to Costa Rica?

The Bears have 3 picks in the first 83. It would be really nice to trade back at some point and pick up a 4th, then get 4 of the top 100 prospects from these positions (2x OT, WR, CB).

Oh yeah, in 2017, Week 13, he caught 8 of 8 targets for 99 yards against the Bears lol. In a 3 game stretch starting in Week 13, he faced the Bears, Texans, and Titans, all good defenses, and ended up with 24 receptions, for 319 yds, averaging 8 receptions and over 100 yds per game. He is way better than some of the other lesser FA WRs Pace has brought in.