The NFL will descend on Indianapolis on Tuesday to meet the top prospects in this year’s draft at the Combine. Over the course of the week, teams will gather valuable information on players and draft boards will start to come together. New draft darlings will emerge. Others will see their draft stock fall.
But we don’t know how things will change at the Combine just yet, so let’s take a moment to timestamp where things stand with a pre-Combine mock draft.
As always, this mock draft is not an attempt to predict what the Bears will actually do when they’re back in the War Room next offseason. That’s impossible. Nor is it meant as a recommendation of what the Bears should do. This mock draft is meant to be a fun way to discuss wild ideas, dig into some of the intriguing college prospects this season, and project how those players may fit in Chicago.
NO. 1: CALEB WILLIAMS – QUARTERBACK – USC
We’ve written about Williams a lot already. If you haven’t seen the coverage, check it out here. Simply put, consensus says Williams is a nearly perfect quarterback prospect. Might be hard for GM Ryan Poles to pass on the opportunity, no matter what he thinks of Justin Fields.
TRADE! BEARS SEND NO. 9 AND NO. 111 PICKS TO RAIDERS IN EXCHANGE FOR NO. 13 AND NO. 44 PICKS.
By the time the Bears are on the clock for their second first-round pick, there are still many players left on their big board that they’d be happy to add to the team. So Poles takes advantage of the opportunity by sliding back a few spots and adding a second-round pick in the process.
