In what could be the most important draft the Bears have had since they moved training camp to Bourbonnais, the Bears drafted 12 players at nine or 10 different positions (depending on where they play the late-round picks).
Per usual with a Jerry Angelo draft, there were a couple of mild reaches (none on the level of last year’s second-round selection of Dan Bazuin), but on the whole, it appears the team filled the most pressing needs in the early rounds, chose who they felt were the best players available in the middle rounds and then patched some other holes with their seventh-round picks.
Let’s take a look at the first few draft picks. We’ll take a look at the later rounds in an upcoming post.
However you spend your time when you watch the NFL Draft — playing the NFL Draft drinking game, guessing what is in Mel Kiper Jr.’s hair (language warning), competing in an office mock draft pool, etc. — the event remains one of the most popular events in sports, even though no game takes place. I credit the N.Y. Jets notorious bungling of drafts for this.
There’s a long way to go this season, but with the fast starts of St. Louis, Cincinnati and Milwaukee, it looks like this N.L. Central race may not be the runaway that all the “experts” were thinking.
