The Chicago Bears don’t appear to be as wanting to commerce the No. 1 general choose as they have been a 12 months in the past. In keeping with a report from NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport on Saturday, the Bears would want a “historic” and “loopy” commerce supply to even contemplate shifting the choose.
That would appear to point they not solely intend to maintain the choose, but in addition most definitely choose USC quarterback Caleb Williams with the highest choose.
That is the second 12 months in a row the Bears have had management of the highest choose. As a substitute of retaining it in 2023 to pick Bryce Younger, they traded the choose to the Carolina Panthers for an unbelievable haul of picks and gamers.
Chicago ended up coming away with huge receiver D.J. Moore, the Panthers’ 2023 first-round choose, a 2023 second-round choose (No. 61) and the Panthers 2024 first-round choose. The latter choose turned out to be this 12 months’s No. 1 general choice.
If they’re in search of one thing “historic” or “loopy” it will should be greater than that.
Assuming the Bears do preserve this 12 months’s choose and choose Williams, it will in all probability imply that their present quarterback — Justin Fields — would ultimately be traded.
Regardless that Fields has not develop into a top-tier participant, he confirmed vital progress within the second half of the 2023 season and is without doubt one of the finest working quarterbacks in soccer. There could be a robust commerce marketplace for him and it will not be a stretch to think about them getting a first-round choose in change for him.
Together with Carolina’s choose, the Bears additionally nonetheless have their very own first-round choose (No. 9 general). Mixed with their wage cap house it is a massive offseason that might dramatically flip the Bears franchise round in the event that they get every little thing proper.
