C+
Chicago Bears
The Bears landed square in the muddy middle: C+.
by supercooper ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 1 picks
· 0 steals
· 1 reaches
Everything else got attention, and edge rusher got none. That is a strange way for the Bears to leave a draft. It nets out a thoroughly average C+.
The cost of the McNeil-Warren reach is exactly the players who went right after him. The back end got a real overhaul.
If Emmanuel McNeil-Warren and a couple of the gambles land, hindsight will be kinder than this grade.
Pick-by-Pick
Emmanuel McNeil-Warren at slot 25 is a conviction pick that outran the value. A minor need, but a need all the same.