When the Chicago Bears traded up to select Leonard Floyd with the ninth overall pick of the 2016 NFL draft, the move didn’t come without skepticism. Some saw Floyd as too raw and thin in comparison to other more polished prospects. Chicago had other needs too, and even seemed to receive a bit of fortune with the pre-draft consensus best offensive tackle in the Miami Dolphins’ Laremy Tunsil falling to their slot. Everyone outside of the organization generally believed that’s who the Bears were moving up to acquire.
Though, that was all hindsight and pointless conjecture given the incomplete information available on hand in April.