Bill Zimmerman

1 week ago | windycitygridiron.com | Bill Zimmerman

Photo by Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It’s our final look in our “The Case for” series, and this time, we are talking defense in general. This article isn’t about the Bears adding a specific defensive player, just that ignoring this side of the ball when there’s a good chance that the best player available (BPA) is going to be on the defensive side of the ball. I get it, the Bears need a lot of help on offense. They need a 3-down running back. They don’t have one.

1 week ago | windycitygridiron.com | Bill Zimmerman

Photo by Peter Joneleit/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It’s time for the third article in our “The Case for” series, and this time we are looking at tight end. I know Bears fans will look at this article and go, here’s a guy who’s going to bag on Cole Kmet and say we need to replace him. Nope, I’m not. But the Chicago Bears still need another good-quality TE on the roster. Before we dive into the draft, let’s take a minute to talk about Kmet. Kmet is a solid player. I like Kmet.

1 week ago | windycitygridiron.com | Bill Zimmerman

Photo by Patrick Mulligan/Getty Images It’s a new regime in Chicago. Ben Johnson is here, and the Chicago Bears are going to start thinking differently about how to approach roster building. What we know currently is that how the Bears have approached roster building the last three years largely hasn’t worked. This isn’t to turn things into a bash Ryan Poles article, but when you’ve averaged 5 wins a season for three years, things aren’t going like you would have hoped.

1 week ago | windycitygridiron.com | Bill Zimmerman

Scott Kinser-Imagn Images This is the first article in a four-part miniseries about what the Chicago Bears should do with the 10th pick of the draft. We will examine four different position groups and explain why drafting that position is the right move for the Bears. We start with the offensive line. Of course, the Chicago Bears need to draft an offensive lineman, specifically a left tackle.

1 week ago | windycitygridiron.com | Bill Zimmerman

Photo by Todd Rosenberg/Getty Images As we’ve done the last few years, we conducted an interactive top ten mock draft on Twitter/X. We give the fans a chance to vote pick-by-pick until we reach the Chicago Bears selection. It's worked out that the Bears have picked 9th or 10th in each of the last three seasons, so that certainly helps the exercise. How did it play out? Here are the results.