Could Bears find their new center in 2024 NFL Draft?

The Bears have their starting center for the 2023 season in Cody Whitehair.

Whitehair has rotated back and forth from guard to center since joining the Bears in 2016, and this coming year will see him moving back to center for Chicago. The former Pro Bowler is one of the lone remaining players from the division-winning 2018 squad, but he turns 31 years old this July.

The Bears save roughly $9.1 million by releasing him after the 2023 season, and they would save about $10.2 million by deferring that extra $1.1 million cap hit to 2025 with a post-June 1 designation. A decision to cut Whitehair is a bit premature at this rate, as we haven’t even seen him take the field for the upcoming year.…