The Bears 2025 Draft Thread

[NCChiFan]

I'm hearing good things about Kyle Monangai RB. Top 8 RB who's stock dropped because his college team never passed the ball to Running Backs. No catch tape dropped him. But as a runner he is top 10 in the draft, perhaps even top 7. This according to a Rookie draft analytics guy on Fantasy Football as well as last night he was also on the TTL program giving his assessments of the Bears draft to that point. He felt that thus guy can push Swift, hus words not mine. Particularly good between the tackles.

Edit: He also said Burden was his top Wr in this draft, but felt Golden was right with him. Bears got a "stud" comparable to Odunze but in a different kind of way. Gave Odunze and this kid similar rankings as he compared last years to this years.. He expects big things out of this Bear Offense given the talent now accumulated on the skill side of the offensive roster.

 

[Payton]

So brief statement: It isn’t that I don’t think Loveland or Burden III are potentially really good players. It’s that the lesson this team learned last season was that, without strong lines on BOTH sides of the ball, we can’t compete. We brought in O Linemen via free agency, but at least one has a bit of an injury history, and Braxton Jones, who we are apparently also counting on to be a starter also has an injury history.

Our D Line ALSO was suspect last year and we got gashed time and time again.

I don’t feel we learned our lesson from last season regarding O Linemen injuries, and I guess are hoping the vets we brought in on D are the solution there (Possible).

I’d have felt better shoring up those areas BEFORE playing PlayStation football and focusing on more offensive gadget guys. We’ll see.

 

[Beengay fudgepackers]

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So brief statement: It isn’t that I don’t think Loveland or Burden III are potentially really good players. It’s that the lesson this team learned last season was that, without strong lines on BOTH sides of the ball, we can’t compete. We brought in O Linemen via free agency, but at least one has a bit of an injury history, and Braxton Jones, who we are apparently also counting on to be a starter also has an injury history.

Our D Line ALSO was suspect last year and we got gashed time and time again.

I don’t feel we learned our lesson from last season regarding O Linemen injuries, and I guess are hoping the vets we brought in on D are the solution there (Possible).

I’d have felt better shoring up those areas BEFORE playing PlayStation football and focusing on more offensive gadget guys. We’ll see.

Well, our DLine without any injuries was pretty darn good last year. When Billings went down, it started to suck.

The significant loss was DeMarcus Walker.

We gained Grady Jarrett, Dayo Odeyingbo, and Shemar Turner (who can probably take over Walkers do-it-all role right away).

On the offensive line we started out with

Jones-Jenkins-Shelton/Bates-Davis-Wright

This year we start out with

Jones-Thuney-Dalman-Jackson-Wright

I also think the depth this year is a lot better.

I think we improved depth vastly on the DLine, which was required. We also got some very talented olinemen with some rookies thrown in.

The draft could have gone better, but Burden might be our best receiver some day. Loveland could be the best te in the league some day. It seems like a log jam for targets, but that will just make the offense more beautiful if Caleb can spread it around. I’m excited for this year.