LAKE FOREST, Ill. – Thursday night’s opening round of the 2021 NFL draft (ESPN/ESPN App) feels like uncharted territory for a Chicago Bears team that has grown accustomed to picking either in the top 10 or not at all on Day 1.
Since the current front-office regime took control in 2015, the Bears’ first-round draft history is as follows:
2015: Kevin White, seventh overall
2016: Leonard Floyd, ninth overall (traded up from No. 11)
2017: Mitchell Trubisky, second overall (traded up from No. 3)
2018: Roquan Smith, eighth overall
2019: Pick sent to Raiders for Khalil Mack
2020: Pick sent to Raiders for Mack
The landscape at No.