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Post-Draft Analysis: The Windy City Mystery
Authored by Carl Setterlund - 10th May, 2006 - 8:07 pm
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Chicago Bears
Picks:
1st Round: none
2nd Round: Danieal Manning, CB, Abilene Christian (42); Devin Hester, CB, Miami (57)
3rd Round: Dusty Dvoracek, DT, Oklahoma (73)
4th Round: Jamar Williams, OLB, Arizona State (120)
5th Round: Mark Anderson, DE, Alabama (159)
6th Round: JD Runnels, FB, Oklahoma (195); Tyler Reed, OG, Penn State (200)
7th Round: none
Wow. I just don’t know. I just do not know. I’ve been a member the Chicago Bears fan club these past couple years but this draft has me wanting to jump ship. I think there are far better ways the Bears could have approached their first day. The draft choice value chart says Chicago essentially got equal value in trading back from #26 but I can’t help feeling they could have done better. But let us put that in the past and look at what could have been done with the picks they had in the end.
If it were me personally I would have gone in the same direction in the second round but with different guys. Switch Danieal Manning with Sinorice Moss and Devin Hester with Richard Marshall, guys who could have been alternatives to their picks. Moss would have been just as good, if not better than Hester in the return game and would have given the offense a much needed third receiving target. Marshall should be as good as or better than Manning. Actually, I don’t fault Chicago for picking Manning but I do fault them for taking such a risky player in Hester in the second round.
Chicago didn’t address the offense at all which they’ll come to regret. That said, I like Dusty Dvoracek and feel he’s going to end up as a relative steal. As well, Mark Anderson in the fifth round was a find and he’s going to contribute on that defensive line along with Dvoracek real soon.
I understand going linebacker in the fourth round but why Jamar Williams? When you have a need sometimes you just take whoever addresses it, but I found Chicago in this draft addressing their needs with a couple questionable picks. Runnels was a great pick in the sixth round and but Reed was taken over a lot of better guard prospects.
For every good pick Chicago made, they made another move that I found perplexing. I think they leave the draft with four likely keepers and three big question marks. How do you grade a team that makes one good pick, and then chokes on the next one?
