The search is over. The Bears handed the keys to Caleb Williams, and the whole operation now runs on his development.

Overpaying at the table undid a lot of the good work elsewhere. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped edge rusher, which is a strange place to end up. Whatever else happened, they won the night they took Goncalves.

The cost of the Rice reach is exactly the players who went right after him.

In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.