The Chicago Bears needed a wild ending to the Texans-Colts game to land the worst record in the NFL and the #1 pick in the 2023 NFL Draft.
Yet even if the Texans hadn’t miraculously won their season finale, the Bears would have still finished 3-14. That’s the most losses in franchise history, and it is the first time that we’ve finished a season with the outright worst record in the NFL.
It is not, however, the first time we’ve drafted first overall. It’s the third. The first was the 1941 draft (held in December 1940), where we took Michigan halfback Tom Harmon.