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Bears under pressure to end first-round funk

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.