A Bears Mock Draft by Any Other Name

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A Bears Mock Draft by Any Other Name

Mock drafts come in many shapes and sizes. E sentially, this is what an article by Pro Football Focus' Sam Monson is about how the Bears build around Justin Fields. It's really merely one of PFF's mock drafts from a simulator with some explanation attached.There is nothing Shon Coleman Jersey novel or deep about this great plan to build around Fields, because it isn't really a well-executed plan. However, Monson does have one sentence in the piece which should reverberate throughout Halas Hall because it is extremely wise considering the current Bears situation. "They should entertain any and all offers of trading down from any of their early picks, but the temptation to use No. 39 overall for the right player will be tough to resist," Monson wrote.Truly, the Bears must trade down and this has been . They need to do it several times if po sible in order to create numbers out of a draft where there currently are none. Not only do the Bears have only six picks, but they have big gaps in the proce s. Obviously they have no first-round pick but having two in the first 48 could suffice. The really big gap is after No. 71. They don't pick again until 148 in Round 5. Then after 186 in Round 6 they are done. The story quickly disintegrates into a Bears seven-round mock draft and the only trade offered up is one in the second round with pick No. 48. That is a good pick to trade, although doing it and moving completely out of the second round don't really seem nece sary. They were in this deal.Monson had the Bears send the 48th pick to Detroit for the Lions first third-round pick, No. 66, their 97th pick which is a compensatory selection at the end of Round 3, No. 234 in Round 7 and then a fourth Isaiah Rodgers Jersey -round pick next year.The 66-97 combo would give the Bears three picks in the third round. The 97th then closes the gap until their 148th pick. Beyond that, Monson brings in many of the names being mentioned for selection already.He suggests the Bears draft Skyy Moore, Western Michigan's slot receiver, with the 39th pick. If not, then the suggestion is tackle Bernhard Raimann from Central Michigan or X-receiver types George Pickens of Georgia or Christian Watson from North Dakota State. Moore is recommended over the others."A 4.41-second 40-yard dash time at the combine shows he has more wheels than many gave him credit for, and his tape is just a clinic on making plays in different ways," Monson wrote. The next way to build around Fields is drafting Dylan Parham at No. 66, the Memphis guard/center. Scroll to ContinueFor some reason, PFF insists on perpetuating the myth Parham is too small for the NFL as Monson says he is 285 pounds. He may have played at that weight at some time in the past but Wide receiver is addre sed once more at No. 71 with Cincinnati's Alec Pierce, who has been heavily researched by the Bears. However, it's quite po sible Pierce never makes it to this late in the draft. Monson also gives Fields more help in Round 5 with the 148th pick by selecting Utah State tackle Braxton Jones. This BoPete Keyes Jersey is a sleeper type player at 6-5, 310, who could fit well with their wide-zone blocking scheme because of his quickne s. He ran a 4.97 in the 40-yard dash.Strangely, for an article aimed at building around Justin Fields, this is the last bit of building on offense Monson suggested. The rest is all a mock draft on defense with one suggestion for post draft of signing unrestricted, low-cost free agent pa s rusher Jerry Hughes.The PFF article does make one pick who could be of benefit for the Bears and that's Zyon McCollum, the Sam Houston State cornerback who needs to show he can actually Tyquan Lewis Jersey play pa s coverage. McCollum was chosen at No. 97 after the trade down and he hasn't had good skills for pa s coverage so far but he did run a 4.33-second combine time for the 40 and had a completely ridiculous time of 6.48 in the three-cone drill. This reminds me of the time Dave Wannstedt came down at the old Halas Hall media room to tell us John Theirry beat the heck out of Simeon Rice as a draft pick because he could run circles around the former Illinois star in the three-cone drill.Thierry had 33 1/2 career sacks and Rice, who is from the south suburbs, made 122. It's about playing football, not sack races. So it was easy to see why Wannstedt never could come up with that brilliant outside pa s rusher nece sary to run his Dallas-style defense when he was looking at cones.For some reason, Monson has the Bears drafting Noah Elli s, a 6-foot-6 1/2, 348-pound Idaho spud of a nose tackle. The Bears dumped the 3-4. The nose in a 4-3 ideally is someone almost the size of their three technique, around 300 pounds but with strength and explosivene s to get into a gap after tending to the center. They're not looking for Man Mountain to take up two or three gaps in a trench as a road block.He also has them drafting punter Matt Araiza of San Diego State in Round 6, which is the round they once drafted Pat O'Donnell. But a team supposedly in need of trading down because of roster holes can't be wasting draft picks on a punter when competition for new punter Ryan Winslow can easily come from undrafted free agents or those veterans currently on the street.Araiza does get credit for a good nickname: Punt God. Being called this does sound a bit Todd Sauerbrunish, though.The last pick actually is an interesting one even coming in Round 7 and that's defensive tackle C.J. Wright of Georgia Southern. Wright had 29 pre sures last year and that's plenty for an interior line player.Finding someone like that, whose talent translates from a smaller school to the NFL at pick No. 234 in Round 7 would be a steal.And, again, it wouldn't be supporting Fields, which was Art Donovan Jersey the original stated intent of Monson's article.
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