After meeting late into the night with his staff Friday, Bears general manager Ryan Poles fell asleep in the surprisingly comfortable spare bedroom on the second floor of Halas Hall.
When he woke up a few hours later, he knew he was going to trade back in Saturday’s draft. He just didn’t know how many times.
Poles figured he’d know when to stop— and he did eventually, but only after a flurry of deals that almost tripled the Bears’ number of Day 3 draft picks. Poles woke up with three selections Saturdayand finished with eight. More than a quarter of all the trades made in the NFL on Saturday — four of 15 — were made by the Bears’ first-year general manager.