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Armand Membou Head Shot
PICK: 11 RND: 1 (CHI)
Armand Membou
OT Missouri
Princely Umanmielen Head Shot
PICK: 39 RND: 2 (CHI)
Princely Umanmielen
DE Ole Miss
James Pearce Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 42 RND: 2 (CHI)
James Pearce Jr.
DE Tennessee
Jayden Higgins Head Shot
PICK: 73 RND: 3 (CHI)
Jayden Higgins
WR Iowa State
Miles Frazier Head Shot
PICK: 148 RND: 5 (CHI)
Miles Frazier
OG LSU
Jared Wilson Head Shot
PICK: 203 RND: 6 (CHI)
Jared Wilson
C Georgia
Garrett Dellinger Head Shot
PICK: 226 RND: 7 (CHI)
Garrett Dellinger
OG LSU
Tyreak Sapp Head Shot
PICK: 244 RND: 7 (CHI)
Tyreak Sapp
DE Florida
Draft Grade — Bears
Overall B-
ValueC NeedB TradesB- FutureB-
Nothing loud, just a tidy B- for the Bears.

It is the swing that defines the weekend: Jayden Higgins in Round 3, Pick 9, a good 67 spots before the room expected him.

That Umanmielen pick is the receipt they will wave around later. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped interior defensive lineman, which is a strange place to end up.

Good work on the whole, with interior defensive lineman the one box left unchecked.

Pick Analysis
Pick11 Rnd1 Armand Membou
Armand Membou at Round 1, Pick 11 is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Pick39 Rnd2 Princely Umanmielen
Princely Umanmielen in slot 39 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Pick42 Rnd2 James Pearce Jr.
You do not let an edge rusher like James Pearce Jr. reach pick No. 42 and blink. They did not. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick73 Rnd3 Jayden Higgins
They reached into another round for Jayden Higgins, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. A need, and now a little less of one.
Pick148 Rnd5 Miles Frazier
Miles Frazier in pick 148 is a bet on their own eyes over everyone else's grade. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Pick203 Rnd6 Jared Wilson
Fair-plus on Jared Wilson, a quiet win that adds up over a draft. The roster fit checks out.
Pick226 Rnd7 Garrett Dellinger
Garrett Dellinger in pick No. 226 is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
Pick244 Rnd7 Tyreak Sapp
A real head-scratcher, Tyreak Sapp in the 244th overall pick is miles ahead of his ranking. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.