Bears Wire

The 2024 NFL draft is just around the corner, and it’s shaping up to be a thrilling first round given this quarterback class and teams looking to trade up to land an impact player. The only thing certain at this point is the Chicago Bears will draft Caleb Williams with the first overall pick. We’ve been sharing our weekly mock drafts throughout this pre-draft process, where we’ve tried to pin down realistic scenarios. But everyone’s thought process when it comes into assembling mocks is different, which makes it exciting with any given week. So we decided to introduce a twist. In this exercise, we let the computer do the selecting in the frist round — and there were both expected and surprising results. We used Pro Football Focus’ mock draft simulator, which didn’t include any trades and featured default settings with less care for positional value and more drafting for needs.