Chicago Bears: Blunt, unfiltered grades for 2020 NFL Draft picks
By Ryan Heckman
The 2020 NFL Draft is in the books and the Chicago Bears would like to think they’re a better team after all is said and done. Is that really the case?
Just like that, the 2020 NFL Draft has come and went. Was it everything we thought it would be and more? Well, for the Chicago Bears, not really. But, as football fans, it was fantastic.
How great was it to have some type of live, meaningful sports in our lives? I’m sure many of you had wonderful weekends full of football, because that’s exactly what I had. It was a pleasant break from all of the craziness in this world.
But, as I said before, it wasn’t all peaches and cream for the Bears. Most fans fully expected Pace to make a deal or two, but I don’t think anyone expected him to stay put in the second round.
With other NFC North rivals having some success in this draft, like the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions, the Bears came away with a much less-impressive class. In fact, the Vikings had one of the best drafts in all of football this year. There is no denying they played this weekend right and were left with a fantastic haul of picks.
As for Detroit, we now get to see Jeffrey Okudah and D’Andre Swift twice a year — that alone is an impressive first two rounds for the Lions.
How about the Green Bay Packers? Well, at least maybe one of the Bears’ rivals could have had a worse draft — or, at least, more confusing. What on earth is Aaron Rodgers thinking as his team picked a quarterback in the first round? I don’t fully understand the Jordan Love pick. But, we can talk about that another day.
Right now, we’re here to talk about not fully understanding the Bears’ draft. Let’s go through each pick, one by one, and try to make sense of it all. Spoiler alert: There will be little sense made.