B+
Chicago Bears
The Bears let Golday fall and pounced. Final grade: B+.
by JBHANCOCK94 ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 8 picks
· 3 steals
· 0 reaches
Thirty-one other rooms let Jake Golday slide, and the Bears were the ones holding the card at the Round 3 slot. Highway robbery. A dependable weekend that grades out a B+.
The trade ledger is the best part of the whole weekend. The interior defensive lineman hole is the one line item this class does not answer. The Tyler Guyton pickup adds a known quantity to a class of unknowns.
Add it up and it is a good, unfussy class.
Pick-by-Pick
Olaivavega Ioane at pick 25 nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Keith Abney II at slot 60 is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Circle this one: Jake Golday at the Round 3 slot is a fall that decides a draft. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Fair-plus on Deion Burks, a quiet win that adds up over a draft. It fills a real need, too.
They paid sticker price for Harold Perkins Jr. in Round 4, Pick 29, and that is fine. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Ar'maj Reed-Adams at pick No. 177 is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
A market-rate offensive lineman, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Fa'alili Fa'amoe. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
They let Zavion Thomas come to them and pounced at the 241st pick. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.