To say the Bears dramatically remade their roster this offseason is an understatement. Nearly every part of the team looks different than it did in 2022, and that’s probably a good thing, because the Bears had the league’s worst record last season.
Normally, a team that bottoms out as hard as the Bears did would relish the opportunity to pick first overall, but the Bears, committed as they are to quarterback Justin Fields, decided instead to trade the first overall pick for a king’s ransom, flipping the selection to the Carolina Panthers in exchange for a laundry list of assets, one of which was wide receiver D.