The Chicago Bears are a well-rounded team in several positions on the list, making next month’s NFL draft incredibly important to a team we’re told is in “win now.”
The defender remains the biggest concern for the Bears after a few weeks of flirting with the possibility to trade for the Seattle Seahawks defender Russell Wilson. After offering three first-round picks, a third-round pick and two players, Seattle told Chicago it is not trading Wilson at this time.
Even after the Bears lost the Wilson lottery, they still manage to find their (potential) franchise defender without having to trade to move into the draft in a new fake draft.
In Touchdown Wire’s new fake sketch, Doug Farrar has Chicago as Alabama quarterback Mac Jones in his 20th general election.
If you’re wondering how Jones could drop to 20 in a draft in which there are desperate teams in the defensive position, Farrar covers you.
Why would it drop to 20? Because the modern NFL requires quarterbacks to display mobility and secondary reaction ability, and Jones has not demonstrated much of that at all. But he is an excellent pocket engine (the combination of passive and active is why so many beat him in the Patriots) and maybe he can be turned into a mid-league motorcyclist with boots and drills. However, from Day 1, it is an improvement over what the bears carry there.
But the Bears aren’t relying on Jones taking 20th place, and it doesn’t look like they’ll trade to take one of those five defenders.
That’s why they seem to do a lot of homework on the Day 2 quarterbacks, including Kyle Trask of Florida, Kellen Mond of Texas A&M, Jamie Newman of Georgia and Ian Book of Notre Dame.
Then again, the belief is that Jones – or the other prospects of the first four defenders – will disappear long before Chicago’s turn to reach 20th. But if Jones fell to the Bears in the first round, it would be hard to imagine. GM Ryan Pace passes over him.