Earlier this week in Bears Bits, I asked what you’d be comfortable with the Bears giving up at the deadline. Ryan Poles answered that one for all of us on Thursday morning.
Chicago sent its 2027 and 2028 first-round picks, plus a 2027 fourth-rounder, to Tennessee for Jeffery Simmons and a 2028 fifth. Since the common draft era began in 1967, no defensive tackle had ever been traded for more than one first-round pick. Simmons is the first.
That’s a steep price by any measure. But I don’t see this as a Super Bowl rental, and I doubt Poles does either. Matt Rooney already laid out what Simmons does for everyone around him on the field. I want to look at what Chicago actually did with its draft capital: it turned two picks that will likely land late in the first round into a proven difference-maker at a key position, for this season and the next two.
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FULL STORY: The Bears Traded A Lot to Get Jeffery Simmons, But It’s the Right Move (via Patrick K. Flowers
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