Chicago Bears Draft: Grades for entire NFC North
The Chicago Bears and their NFC North Rivals are officially done with their 2020 NFL Draft. Each team had selections that earned them specific grades.
Chicago Bears
The Chicago Bears had an okay draft. There have been some mixed reviews on some of their picks but overall, they improved their football team by virtue of adding some pieces that weren’t already there. What makes a draft impactful or not, however, is if you added the right players for what your team needs or taking the best available player. The Bears never seem to do that but they did get some needs taken care of here.
It started with taking Cole Kmet from the University of Notre Dame. It was a pretty good pick as far as the need for a tight end to come in but there have been arguments made that it wasn’t a proper value pick. Either way, Kmet should be a great player for them and could end up being a key piece to their offense right away.
That, however, is basically where the help for the offense ended for a while. It was clearly the weakness of the team in 2019 but they upgraded their elite defense anyway. They used their next three picks in the draft to select players on the defensive side of the ball. They are surely going to have another good defensive unit in 2020 but the offense still needs to hold out hope that it is at least able to improve a little bit.
Their picks are as followed:
- Round 2, Pick 43 – Cole Kmet, TE
- Round 2, Pick 50 – Jaylon Johnson, DB
- Round 5, Pick 155 – Trevis Gipson, OLB
- Round 5, Pick 163 – Kindle Vildor, DB
- Round 5, Pick 173 – Darnell Mooney, WR
- Round 7, Pick 226 – Arlington Hambright, OL
- Round 7, Pick 227 – Lachavious Simmons, OL
For not having a first or a third-round pick, it was a pretty okay haul. That is what happens when you acquire a superstar like Khalil Mack in a trade. Well, Pace might have slightly saved his draft grade by drafting some offensive linemen with the last two picks but being seventh rounders, we have to wait and see if they will make an impact.