The first and ninth overall picks in this month’s 2024 NFL Draft belong to the Chicago Bears. After a very busy offseason thus far, general manager Ryan Poles and company are in a really great situation.
After trading Justin Fields to the Pittsburgh Steelers last month, it is already a given that Chicago will select former USC quarterback Caleb Williams with the first pick in the draft.
The more important query at hand is what Chicago intends to do with the ninth pick. To possibly work with Williams in the Windy City, it has already met with one of the best wide receivers in the draft class.
But there’s more than one scenario at work here. Chicago only has four more picks in the entire draft after those two choices made in the first nine. After making trades for Pro Bowl players Keenan Allen and Montez Sweat over the previous few months, this is just the nature of the beast.
With the draft rapidly approaching, Chicago is one of the teams being linked to trade-down scenarios, according to ESPN’s Field Yates. After those two trades mentioned earlier in the draft, the plan would be to recover some picks.
Chicago now has a chance to acquire value from teams that are in need of quarterbacks, as the top four picks in the draft are likely to be quarterbacks. Additionally, it might make teams that were chosen later in the first round panic and advance to take a signal caller as a reach.
Chicago Bears trade scenarios in the 2024 NFL Draft
- Raiders in Las Vegas freak out over a quarterback:Prior to the NFL Draft, Vegas has already met with Bo Nix and Michael Penix Jr. This is obviously necessary in light of the Jimmy Garoppolo experiment’s failure. Would general manager Tom Telesco, in his first year, trade up from 13 to 9 in order to select a quarterback in the second round of the draft? That is a plausible scenario. Chicago would most likely receive the Raiders’ third-round selection (77th overall) in exchange.
Team in need of wide receivers soars into the top 10:With the trade of Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans, it is evident that Josh Allen, the quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, needs weapons. It will be difficult to locate 28th at this time. Rather, the Bills go all the way up to nine in order to sign Rome Odunze of Washington. Chicago would receive a huge haul, which would include a first-round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, which the team could trade for several picks this season.
The Los Angeles Rams target the EDGE guy:Les Snead, the general manager of the Rams, is known to be constantly involved in trade talks. Considering their recent unexpected playoff run, that might be the case on draft night. Dallas Turner of Alabama might make it to nine, in which case Snead would likely jump from 19. This would likely net the Bears a third-and-fourth-round pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. - GET MORE NEWS HERE