If you follow football closely, you understand that an offense is only as good as the five very large men it has on the offensive line. A team can have all the talent in the world at the skill positions, a quarterback can be a Pro Bowler, an All-Pro, a superstar. But in the end, if the offensive wall of man can’t hold, then that attack will never reach its true potential.
For the longest time, it wasn’t always certain the current Bears regime understood this. In the six drafts prior to 2021, Chicago drafted zero offensive tackles higher than the sixth round.