The Bears did the thing. Twice. In one night. It’s enough to make Vags McCaskey blush. Well, more likely probably George.
With the first and ninth picks in the draft they took the top two players on my Desipio Media Ventures/Pointless Exercise Big Board™.
If you aren’t a Super Premium Diehard Subscriber you didn’t have pre-draft access to the board, but now, the day after the first round, I’m happy to let you have a little peak.
Caleb Williams, QB, USC
Rome Odunze, WR, Washington
Kashigi Yobushige, Shōgun
The fat defensive lineman from Illinois
That really tall offensive lineman from Notre Dame
Tracks 2-7 of Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department”
Petecrow Armstrong, CF, Cubs
Elizabeth Banks
Michael Penix’s portable MRI machine
Any surviving former employee of Marvin Harrison’s car wash
You have no idea how much scouting goes into something this in-depth.
Once the Bears decided they were going to take Caleb first overall it was impossible for them to fuck up this draft. You have the first pick, you take the best player and he just happens to play the most important position in sports? That’s how it’s done.
The Williams pick is a legitimately great thing for the Bears. He’s a special talent, and they have thrown lots of resources at building an explosive offense around him. But the exciting thing is that this isn’t trying to put a set of weapons around a middling passer hoping to make him productive. This is the Bears taking a shot at putting playmakers around a guy who can actually get them the ball.
Will it work? Shit. I don’t know. But I do know it’s absolutely worth the effort. This approach is how you win in the modern day NFL. This isn’t trying to win in the 2020s with an offense made up of players best suited to run the T-formation.
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