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1. Nick Fairley, DT, Auburn 2. DaQuan Bowers, DE, Clemson 3. Patrick Peterson, CB, LSU 4. AJ Green, WR, Georgia 5. Von Miller, DE/OLB, Texas A&M (wow) 6. Marcel Dareus, DT, Alabama 7. Prince Amukamara, CB, Nebraska 8. Robert Quinn, DE, North Carolina 9. Nate Solder, OT, Colorado (wow) 10. Blaine Gabbert, QB, Missouri 11. Aldon Smith, DE, Missouri 12. Jake Locker, QB, Washington 13. Akeem Ayers, OLB, UCLA 14. Julio Jones, WR, Alabama 15. Cam Newton, QB, Auburn 16. Ryan Kerrigan, DE, Purdue 17. Cameron Jordan, DE, Cal 18. Cameron Heyward, DE/DT, Ohio State 19. Tyron Smith, OT, USC 20. Adrian Clayborn, DE, Iowa 21. Justin Houston, DE/OLB, Georgia 22. Derek Sherrod, OT, Mississippi State 23. Gabe Carimi, OT, Wisconsin 24. JJ Watt, DE, Wisconsin 25. Brandon Harris, CB, Miami 26. Titus Young, WR, Boise State 27. Torrey Smith, WR, Maryland 28. Mark Ingram, RB, Alabama 29. Who would you go with? They gave the Bears Anthony Castonzo. It would be tough to pass on Corey Liuget or Mike Pouncey. I'd honestly go with either Castonzo, Pouncey, or maybe even Wisniewski. I'm not going to take Liuget there if I think there's a shot at getting Paea later on in the 2nd round, even if it means giving up a 5th or so to move up a few spots to do it. If that's your strategy, I'd see if you could trade down. You can get good guards in the top half of the second round. Yep, you're right. Trading down from the 1st would probably recoup whatever you're sending back out to trade up to get Paea in this scenario.

Hey, it's something anyway. I'm not all that enthused with the reports, but we have to trust the scouting sometimes. I guess both of these guys start in Peoria? If so, does this move Gibbs to Daytona possibly?

Wow, pretty shocked about who they put in there, as far as the missing players went. I hate to ask this, but do we have a better pulse of our system than BA or guys like Law possibly? Those of us that are here, follow this stuff pretty hardcore anyway. I know we don't have the contacts obviously, but we may wind up getting about the same info as they do(albeit second hand from them), and we stay on top of it better, since we're only doing this with one team and not 30?

1. Nick Fairley, DT, Auburn 2. DaQuan Bowers, DE, Clemson 3. Patrick Peterson, CB, LSU 4. AJ Green, WR, Georgia 5. Von Miller, DE/OLB, Texas A&M (wow) 6. Marcel Dareus, DT, Alabama 7. Prince Amukamara, CB, Nebraska 8. Robert Quinn, DE, North Carolina 9. Nate Solder, OT, Colorado (wow) 10. Blaine Gabbert, QB, Missouri 11. Aldon Smith, DE, Missouri 12. Jake Locker, QB, Washington 13. Akeem Ayers, OLB, UCLA 14. Julio Jones, WR, Alabama 15. Cam Newton, QB, Auburn 16. Ryan Kerrigan, DE, Purdue 17. Cameron Jordan, DE, Cal 18. Cameron Heyward, DE/DT, Ohio State 19. Tyron Smith, OT, USC 20. Adrian Clayborn, DE, Iowa 21. Justin Houston, DE/OLB, Georgia 22. Derek Sherrod, OT, Mississippi State 23. Gabe Carimi, OT, Wisconsin 24. JJ Watt, DE, Wisconsin 25. Brandon Harris, CB, Miami 26. Titus Young, WR, Boise State 27. Torrey Smith, WR, Maryland 28. Mark Ingram, RB, Alabama 29. Who would you go with? They gave the Bears Anthony Castonzo. It would be tough to pass on Corey Liuget or Mike Pouncey. I'd honestly go with either Castonzo, Pouncey, or maybe even Wisniewski. I'm not going to take Liuget there if I think there's a shot at getting Paea later on in the 2nd round, even if it means giving up a 5th or so to move up a few spots to do it.

Don't like either of these 2, but we'll likely only have to put up with them for a few weeks.

I actually respect lists like this, because at least Law is taking chances with some of his picks. More than what most of these guys do.

GBNReport's senior bowl coverage's wins and losers are slightly different than what we're seeing at WalterFootball as far as how everything went over the course of the week. Winners- DT Phil Taylor, OG Danny Watkins, OG/C John Moffit, OG/OT Marcus Gilbert, WR Leonard Hankerson, WR Greg Salas, RB Kendall Hunter, TE Lance Kendricks, DT Christian Ballard, CB Jalil Brown Honorable Mentions- Titus Young, Vince Brown, Austin Pettis, Niles Paul, and Dwayne Harris are the WR's. Stark contrast from Walter's saying Young is now a 1st round type at least...... TE's Lee Smith and Luke Stocker, DT's Javoris Jenkins A and Sione Fua, LB's Mason Foster and Kelvin Sheppard, and DB Marcus Gilchrest. Best overall player was Cameron Jordan. Allen Bailey showed up 12-15 pounds lighter and wasn't very effective. Von Miller was at a disadvantage because he's a 3/4 guy and they played 4/3. They still said Locker was clearly the best QB there, just was very inconsistent. Kaepernick and Ponder showed flashes but are both projects. Stanzi was slow to get the ball off all week. The two sites assessment on the O-linemen worth talking about were basically the same. None hurt themselves, Carimi may be looked at as a LT, Castonzo was very consistent, Solder has tons of upside. Sherrod was pretty good. None established themselves as the top guy here.

Wasn't he considered all but a lock to be a top-5 pick last season, or am I remembering wrong? He was potentially the top overall pick.

I'd figure in order, this is how I'd rank the contracts for these guys, in order from most money to lowest: V-Jax, Holmes, Rice, and Edwards.

Brett Jackson didn't make it? I'd suspect he was somewhere around 50ish or so. He had him at 101. Damn, I hadn't seen Brett land that far down anyone's list in over a year.

Oh, I'm not sold on Rice myself. I just figure someone will panic and cough up the cash for what they hope he's going to be. I think I've decided that I want either Edwards or Holmes from the Jets, whichever one they let go. I actually think I prefer Braylon in an odd way too(don't think he's better than Holmes) because I think he'd be much cheaper and still provide us with someone who's definitely our best receiver as soon as he stepped onto the field.

Brett Jackson didn't make it? I'd suspect he was somewhere around 50ish or so.

I don't think Jackson will be available if there is a franchise tag next year. If there isn't, I'm also pretty sure he won't be coming cheap, by any stretch. He showed enough in that one game last year to show what kind of talent he is. Rice may have to sign some semblance of a "prove it" contract, but I still think he'd get very solid money too, because there are plenty of teams out there that need receiver help in a major way.

Latest Walterfootball mock has Bears with Castonzo, Austin, Dwayne Harris WR from ECU and KJ Wright, OLB from Miss St. Interesting notes: Ttitus Young up to the 26th pick, Cameron Heyward's stock not being affected, and Paea dropping to the 53rd pick. The 5 guys being picked right after Castonzo are Liuget, Wilkerson, Pouncey, Wisniewski, and Martez Wilson. The 5 guys picked right after Austin are Danny Watkins, Dowling, Marcus Cannon, Deandre McDaniel, and Johnny Patrick(CB from Lousville) The WR corps thins out VERY early at this point, with Hankerson and Baldwin both going off the board by the 41st pick, making it extremely tough for us to nab a solid WR with where we're picking, unless we want to reach for one in the 1st instead of taking solid value with the OLine at the same spot.

I think it depends on what the Bears motives are for FA personally. And we don't(and probably won't) know that, assuming there's a lockout. In a normal situation, I'd say yes to the trade you just proposed. But, if we're NOT going to be active in FA, then I want the absolute best value I can get for the O-Line and WR with our top 2 picks. And trading down could cost us from that standpoint. That said, if we're going to be active(Angelo said we'd address some things in FA at least) trading down and possibly getting a falling Paea, plus picks could be nice. Or something else like that.

Stanzi appears to have been OK so far from what I've read, but Kaepernick looks to have had the best practices from the North, from what I've read. Locker's been the worst of the three, but it'll be interesting to see how much, if any, these couple of days sway the opinions of anyone.

Allright, here's a scenario: Carimi, Sherrod, Titus Young, Nevis, Liuget, Cameron Heyward, and Pouncey are on the board when we get to the 29th pick. What are you doing?

He's put himself squarely into the 2nd round picture as of now, with a few places thinking he could sneak into the back end of the 1st round. I'm not keeping up with QB's all that much(since the Bears aren't taking one) but Dan Reeves said he picked up the offense really quickly and can move through his reads with the best of them. He may actually need to hold onto the ball a little longer and let things develop in front of him to maximize whatever play was called.

Based on what I've read, Jake Locker could be falling more. Gotta think he regrets not coming out last year at this point. Titus Young is getting enough Desean Jackson comps to where he could wind up as a 1st rounder. Carimi, Castonzo, Sherrod and Solder appear to have solidified their standings. Carimi may even get some teams looking at his as a LT. Solder has the projjection to wind up 335 or so, which would make him a damn mountain. Sherrod looks like more of a pass protector than a run blocker at the next level. Castonzo evidently was more consistent out of the 4, but in the end, I think this could very well wind up as a log jam with none of these 4 being considered clearly ahead or behind the others. I've seen some very solid reports on John Moffitt too. If he's available in the 3rd, he may be one of those guys you take, just because you KNOW he's going to be a solid guy you can immediately plug into your starting lineup. About Paea: I read the injury probably keeps him out of the combine, but he'l probably have enough time to still schedule some individual workouts. Will hurt his stock though, so maybe there's hope he falls..... Maybe it's been mentioned here and I glossed over it, but Cameron HEyward just had TJS? He's going to miss 12 weeks or so? He won't have much of a shot at getting in any private workouts or anything, with this being the case. So, here's another guy we may can hope starts falling......

I think Law is very knowledgable overall, but when he starts talking about individual systems and their tendancies, it kind of shows that he's a national guy, not a team guy. Which is fine with me anyway. He probably just talks to a couple of people in each organization and goes from there with his own analysis from what he's heard. Then, he may add in a comment that doesn't quite make sense, because he probably doesn't do nearly as much research as what we think on these things anyway. As for the ranking? I'm fine with it and figure that's about right. Same with his comment about having more 101-150ish types than just about anyone.

Damn, that'd be sweet.

If he hasn't signed his extension in time and plays out the season without a new deal, I wonder what kind of reception he gets when he's at Wrigley this season?

I'm looking at what's possibly available this offseason from a Safety standpoint. You've got George Wilson from Buffalo, who's supposedly pretty damn good, he's just stuck behind Byrd out there. Gerald Sensabaugh may be available. Not sure if Dallas plans on keeping him or not. You have Michael Huff, who's probably an upgrade from Manning, or at least looks like he'll be paid more. You also have Quinton Mickell and Eric Weddle, who both ARE true upgrades and will paid as such. Anyway, seeing how many guys appear to be available, maybe Manning checks things out and then takes us up on whatever kind of 3 year deal we already had on the table at one point.

Titus Young had another standout day at Senior Bowl Practice. It looks like he's going to be the guy this year that helps his stock bigtime.

S does become a big need if we lose Manning and I agree I'd like a ballhawk type as well. Maybe that's a need that can come through FA? If we lose Manning, maybe we can address S, WR, and one OL spot through FA and address OL, DT, DE and CB through the draft with the main picks?