Bears mock draft reaction: Is Caleb Williams the right call at No. 1? Is a QB?
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Chicago Bears coach Matt Eberflus presented the game ball to the entire team after its 12-10 win against the Minnesota Vikings on “Monday Night Football.” “A new beginning right here,” he said. In Dane Brugler’s first mock draft, he has the Bears taking USC quarterback Caleb Williams with the first pick. Poles, the Bears’ scouting staff and coaches have to simply look at the body of work in a vacuum and decide which one is better, should they decide to take a quarterback. GO DEEPER Jahns: A Bears reporter’s scouting report on USC QB Caleb Williams Jahns: How about neither? But, like quarterback, Poles will have an opportunity to upgrade the position with a top-five prospect, and maybe the top offensive tackle in the draft — Alt or Penn State’s Olu Fashanu.
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