6. Bears botch the QB position in the draft, again
Remember when GM Ryan Pace said that teams would be smart to draft a quarterback every year? That’s the same guy that’s drafted just one quarterback in his six-year tenure in Chicago — and, at this point, that one id deemed an epic failure.
Pace passed on a quarterback, yet again, and it’s fair to wonder if Pace will ever get over the QB hump? Not that any of these guys were sure-things in the later rounds. But it doesn’t hurt to add a young prospect to your roster to grow behind two veterans.
Rather than snag a developmental prospect like Washington State’s Anthony Gordon in the seventh round, the Bears elected to draft back-to-back offensive linemen. Gordon went on to sign as an undrafted free agent with the Seattle Seahawks. Meanwhile, the Bears signed eight undrafted free agents — none of them quarterbacks.
Look, it’s understandable that Chicago’s focus is seeing what they can get out of Mitchell Trubisky and Nick Foles. But continuing to ignore the quarterback position in the NFL Draft is only making Pace look even more foolish than trading up to draft Trubisky over Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson.
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