The Bears don’t have a first-round pick in this year’s NFL Draft in Las Vegas, but that doesn’t mean general manager Ryan Poles and coach Matt Eberflus will just be hanging around the casinos. Here is the Sun-Times’ coverage of this year’s event.
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Previewing and recapping moves by the Bears and the rest of the league.
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The Bears drafted Washington cornerback Kyler Gordon with their first pick in the second round Friday, giving them another big-bodied Pac-12 player to pair with Jaylon Johnson.
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Regardless of his assertion Tuesday — or was it a bluff? — that he could support quarterback Justin Fields by picking players who don’t catch the ball, the Bears enter the second round of the draft in desperate need of a receiver.
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Poles is practical and prudent enough to know he needs to keep his second- and third-round picks rather than trade up into the first round.
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After getting a highly regarded edge rusher in Hutchinson at No. 2, the Lions traded with the Vikings to move up from No. 32 to No. 12 to get Williams, an explosive receiver coming off a torn ACL. The Packers took Georgia linebacker Quay Walker with the 22nd overall pick.
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National champion Georgia makes history by having five defensive players taken in the first round
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Waiting until this year to draft a passer would have been a disaster.
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He doesn’t have a first-round pick, so Poles needs to find quality, long-term players with two second-rounders and a third-rounder.
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The Bears don’t have a first-round draft pick this year. So what’s the plan?
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Poles didn’t exactly recoil when he was asked Tuesday whether he was rebuilding. But he pursed his lips and glanced to the sky for a second. ‘‘The ‘rebuild’ thing is, like, super-sensitive,’’ he said.
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Other than Johnson, cornerback was a big problem for the Bears last season. That’s a good place for them to start in the upcoming draft.