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Draft Selections
Abdul Carter Head Shot
PICK: 17 RND: 1 (CHI)
Abdul Carter
DE-EDGE Penn State
Tate Ratledge Head Shot
PICK: 40 RND: 2 (CHI)
Tate Ratledge
OG Georgia
T.J. Sanders Head Shot
PICK: 48 RND: 2 (CHI)
T.J. Sanders
DT South Carolina
Jake Majors Head Shot
PICK: 79 RND: 3 (CHI)
Jake Majors
C Texas
Billy Bowman Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 154 RND: 5 (CHI)
Billy Bowman Jr.
S Oklahoma
TreVeyon Henderson Head Shot
PICK: 204 RND: 6 (CHI)
TreVeyon Henderson
RB Ohio State
Thor Griffith Head Shot
PICK: 228 RND: 7 (CHI)
Thor Griffith
DL Louisville
Jimmy Horn Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 243 RND: 7 (CHI)
Jimmy Horn Jr.
WR Colorado
Draft Grade — Bears
Overall B
ValueB NeedB+ TradesB- FutureB-
The Bears cashed the board's mistake on Henderson: B.

Call it larceny. TreVeyon Henderson sat on the board until slot 204, and the Bears did not need to be asked twice.

They are betting Horn Jr. proves the room right and everyone else wrong. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped cornerback, which is a strange place to end up.

All told, a draft that does its job without fuss, and there is real value in that.

Pick Analysis
Pick17 Rnd1 Abdul Carter
In pick 17 they get a double-digit-sack hope. The biggest hole, addressed.
Pick40 Rnd2 Tate Ratledge
Value with a capital V on Tate Ratledge in Round 2, Pick 8, a genuine coup. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Pick48 Rnd2 T.J. Sanders
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing T.J. Sanders in the 48th pick. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Pick79 Rnd3 Jake Majors
A slide stopped in the 79th overall pick, with Jake Majors worth more than the price. The roster fit checks out.
Pick154 Rnd5 Billy Bowman Jr.
Billy Bowman Jr. in slot 154 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Pick204 Rnd6 TreVeyon Henderson
The board fumbled TreVeyon Henderson all the way to pick No. 204, and they scooped it up. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Pick228 Rnd7 Thor Griffith
Thor Griffith at No. 228 is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Pick243 Rnd7 Jimmy Horn Jr.
Value said wait; Jimmy Horn Jr. in the Round 7 slot says they were not listening. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.