Get used to this, Bears fans. The story surrounding Chicago during the run-up to the NFL draft in 2021 will concentrate on good background.
The expected departure of Mitch Trubisky and the failed trade for Nick Foles has QB as the team’s greatest need, and with a few passengers in the first round in this year’s class, it makes sense to beat the Bears by at least one of them. connected.
This is the problem: Chicago chooses 20th overall, which usually means they will be outside the strike zone for one of this year’s top names. Or will they?
According to The Draft Network’s latest 2021 sketch proposal, the Bears are making an aggressive trade with No. 8 overall to acquire Trey Lance in North Dakota.
Cartoonist Ben Solak lets GM Ryan Pace say goodbye to the 20th pick this year and a first and third round in 2022 to swap places with the Panthers for Lance, the tool-hungry yet raw FCS signalman.
You can not win without a quarter, and the Bears currently do not have one. So Pace takes another mortgage against their future pick, and moves into the first round to pick up their quarterback this time: Trey Lance. Lance is an uncertain bet, as he has only one year of starting experience, and that was at the FCS level – but don’t confuse that with a ‘raw’ prospect. Lance makes mature decisions and is impressively disapproving for a young player – 0 interception does not happen by accident! He will be good for the Bears, although the status of their OL and WR room can both be discussed.
It’s quite a leap in faith with Lance, who has only one season’s experience at a lower level of college ball. Sure, Lance has all the qualities needed from a first-round pick, but he’s also screaming about the kind of prospect a general manager will get in a year or two.
Buyers need to take care of Lance, and when I think of the fiery hot seat on which both Pace and Matt Nagy, the coach, are, I would think they would look elsewhere for their quarterback solution.
In the second round, Solak sends the Bears Lance teammate into the attacking suit, Dillon Radunz. This is a choice that will qualify as a home track on my scale, as I believe Radunz has the first round. The only thing stopping him from getting a first round is the competition he faced in the state of North Dakota.
Radunz will compete in the Senior Bowl 2021, where he will have the opportunity to showcase his skills against top competition. If he keeps in Mobile, Alabama, he will increase his stock in the first round.
The Bears need help along the offensive line and could especially use an upgrade, where Charles Leno Jr. and Bobby Massie’s best days may be behind him.
Going into Radunz, who is in the position of an immediate upgrade in athletics and is likely to earn a starting spot early in his Bears career, this choice would be fulfilled.