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Searching for ways to break Chicago

It has been a wild offseason in the Chicago Bears fanbase, with so much divide and many opinions. It all circles around what we would do at quarterback and in the draft. This week, I'm looking for some wacky draft sceneries that would break Chicago.

There are obvious choices, taking a punter or a kicker at 1 for example. However, these go without saying, and we're trying to find things that have some logic attached to it.

Let me add a quick disclaimer and say. I don't think for one second any of these scenarios would happen, but I need something to write about.

We trade out of 9, and one of the three wide receivers was there to take

It doesn't feel like this one should break Chicago, but some people have their heart set on us taking a wide receiver at 9. If either Malik Nabers or Rome Odunze is there at 9, then a team trades up and takes one of them. You can guarantee some parts of the fanbase would explode over that, and I'm sure it would be a talking point in Chicago all season.

As for a team that might trade up with Chicago for a wide receiver?

Kansas City Chiefs come to mind. I know it's a long way to go from 32 to 9, but at some point, the Chiefs have to give Patrick Mahomes a key weapon, as Travis Kelce is 34.

Bills, Colts and Rams are teams that I feel could do with another top-end wide receiver. The Colts aren't exactly outside the realm of possibilities, as jumping from 15 to 9 is doable.

Not enough to break Chicago? I agree. How about we trade back up and take Jackson Power-Johnson at center, or stay at 15 and take him.

Doubt it would happen but could you imagine if Marvin Harrison Jr is there at 9, and the Colts trade up for him.

After trading Justin Fields, we still trade out of number 1

Let me start by saying there is no chance this will happen. After everything we've seen recently, it is clear both Ryan Poles and Matt Eberflus are in love with Caleb Williams.

However, our last General Manager did sign Mike Glennon and have him at the draft watching. Then we traded up one spot to take a quarterback in a draft class that no one regarded to be very strong at quarterback.

So, yeah, I guess anything is possible.

Everyone is talking about Caleb Williams, but five other quarterbacks have the potential to be starters as well. Drake Maye, Jayden Daniels, J.D. McCarthy, Michael Penix Jr and Bo Nix.

It's not outside the realm of possibilities that Ryan Poles decides to get a new quarterback and trade back to increase the number of draft picks, then use them to improve our depth.

I'm sure drafting anyone not named Caleb Williams would break Chicago, but trading out would no doubt annihilate Chicago.

The wackiest thing we could do

I wanted to end with something wacky, but I think RG3 beat me to that.

I still have the wackiest of wackiest ideas that would break Chicago.

We draft Marvin Harrison Jr at one and Jared Verse at nine, then start Tyson Bagent at quarterback. Taking anyone but a quarterback at one would be wacky in people's eyes, and people were talking up Tyson Bagent when he started for four games.

This was a fun exercise to write something less serious than what I have been writing about recently. There is no doubt though that if any of these scenarios happened, it would break Chicago.

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