Identifying Chicago Bears’ Biggest Strengths, Weaknesses After Draft
Published by Matt Eurich on May 4, 2015
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Chicago Bears
The Chicago Bears approach to the 2015 draft was simple: take the best player available, as GM Ryan Pace noted, per the team’s official Twitter account:
#Bears GM Ryan Pace on draft: “It was really the best player available the whole way through.”
— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) May 3, 2015
Pace added talent on both sides of the football, and he spoke over the weekend about staying true to his board.
“You have to be disciplined with that,” Pace said, according to Adam Jahns of the Chicago Sun-Times. “When I’ve seen mistakes in the draft, it’s because you do that. We promised ourselves, and we pride ourselves that we won’t do that.”
Instead of reaching for a player who would help add depth to a position of need, Pace stuck with his plan and came away with—in his mind—the six best players available at the time of their selection.
Taking the best player available will ultimately help the team in the long run, but that approach often leads to some positions of need going unaddressed. Pace has done a good job of adding talent to a Bears team that lost 11 games last season, but there are still some positions that can be viewed as weaknesses following the draft.
What positions are Chicago’s strongest? Which are their weakest? We explore that ahead.
