Windy City Gridiron

This is not intended to be a conventional Mock Draft exercise. Instead, I want to try to approach these 5-round mock drafts by contrasting a pair of conventional approaches with a more “unpopular” attempt at team-building. Part 1 is going to contrast two different ways of approaching the draft that should be familiar to fans of the Chicago Bears. The first approach applies conventional wisdom–I will prioritize getting a new quarterback and then drafting the “best player available” on the board, though I will allow myself to move between the Pro Football Network engine and Pro Football Focus’s top candidates, and I will allow myself a 2-player margin to pick the player that better suits Chicago’s needs and system. I will only trade down after I have secured a starting quarterback, and only if the top player available duplicates a position that I have already drafted. However, there is no limit on the number of times I am allowed to trade down under those conditions.