Bears general manager Ryan Poles is predicting a “wild” Day 1 of the NFL draft on Thursday. With the number of elite players in the single digits but as many as 75 potential starters on the board, he sees fewer impediments than ever for teams to be aggressive.
Perhaps even the Bears.
“I feel really confident where we’re at,” Poles said Tuesday.
The last three years, though, that’s yielded nothing more than league average production. The Bears need to do better than that Thursday, when they’re slated to pick 10th, before making three more picks on the second day of the draft.