Bears Wire

The 2024 NFL draft is this week, and teams have finalized their draft boards ahead of what’s expected to be an intriguing first round on draft weekend. We’ve been sharing our weekly mock drafts throughout this pre-draft process, where we’ve tried to pin down realistic scenarios. But everyone’s thought process when it comes into assembling mocks is different, which makes it exciting with any given week. So we decided to introduce a twist. In this exercise, we let the computer do the selecting in the first round — and there were both expected and surprising results. We used ESPN Analytics‘ mock draft simulator, which included multiple trades and plenty of surprising picks.