The NFL Scouting Combine is in the books, so it’s time to fire up the PFF Mock Draft Simulator again and take another swing at trying to fix the 2024 Chicago Bears. A couple of prefaces: First, it’s fun. I think these can be fun exercises if you treat them with a degree of realism. I have a great example in the first version of my Chicago Bears seven-round mock draft, but I’ll talk about that later. Second, I want to look back on these and see how fluid the pre-draft process is when the dust settles in Detroit in April. For example, when I did this before the Senior Bowl — and kept it to myself — I had the Bears addressing the need for a center by taking Oregon’s Jackson Powers-Johnson outside the first round. We know today that’s highly unlikely after his Senior Bowl performance was so damn good that he’s skyrocketed to No. 20 on Dane Brugler’s latest Big Board.
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