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 Breaking News: Chicago Bears Sacks Manager Matt Eberflus, Appoints Ben Johnson as New Head Coach following… see more

Much changes in the run up to the NFL draft, and it could for the Bears this year if the scene being painted by one NFL insider turns out to be correct.

So much can happen early in the draft to impact teams slated to pick elsewhere in the top 10 each year.

A team needing pass rush help but out of reach of the best players might normally settle for a good offensive lineman, unless, of course something happens unexpected above them to change the order players fall. In particular, that would mean with QBs Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders.

With the Bears picking 10th, anything that occurs very early in the first round could give them the chance to move up this year and take one of the highly respected pass rushers available like Michigan’s Mason Graham, Penn State edge Abdul Carter or Georgia’s edge rushers Jalon Walker and Mykel Williams.

Breer was asked why the top two quarterbacks are “falling down” draft boards. The question itself is rather comical because no one knows they’re falling down real draftboards. They might be falling on a few of the mock drafts by media people, but the NFL teams haven’t even had the combine yet and pro days follow that. So nothing is written anywhere about such things at this point.

Breer confirms this for the reader but then adds: “I never heard anyone from a team say that either Ward or Sanders was in the class of the first three quarterbacks (Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, Drake Maye) selected last year. And I might go so far as to say the next three from 2024 (Michael Penix Jr., J.J. McCarthy, Bo Nix) were better prospects, too.”