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How about Bryce Love? I think if his medicals pan out (and I trust our medical staff now as they correctly assessed Meredith) - he could be a steal sort of how Pace stole Eddie Jackson in R4 back in 2017. Jackson was also coming off an injury, didn't do any pre-draft workouts and was sort of a forgotten guy in the draft.

When Love is healthy, he's a legit back IMO that has near R1 talent.
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Exactly my thoughts. It all depends on the medicals and if the Bears medical staff can evaluate his injury correctly. If his medicals are in the clear, he should be considered in R3 or R4 - and you most likely won't have to trade up to get him.
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He claims to be ready by the middle of training camp, which I think is aggressive. Draft him if you feel like his medicals are clean and PUP him until week 6. That would put him around 10 months with his rehab and I'm of the opinion you can get by with Davis/Cohen/Whoever
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G08 wrote:He claims to be ready by the middle of training camp, which I think is aggressive. Draft him if you feel like his medicals are clean and PUP him until week 6. That would put him around 10 months with his rehab and I'm of the opinion you can get by with Davis/Cohen/Whoever
Maybe, but only if he really drops in the draft. You can't count on a 10 month recovery or even a full recovery with ACL's. Look at Meredith.
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FWIW Love said he expects to be full-go by July 8th.

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The question is, how much risk are you willing to take on?
What if he's not ready to go?
What if he never is?

On the flip side, what if he does come all the way back?

I like Love a lot. I think he fits what Nagy wants of his backs nearly perfectly...if he's the same guy we saw before his ACL.

Ordinarily, I'd be okay with rolling dice on that kind of risk in Round 4.
But ordinarily, the Bears have more than one Day 2 pick to mitigate that kind of gamble.
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thunderspirit wrote:The question is, how much risk are you willing to take on?
What if he's not ready to go?
What if he never is?

On the flip side, what if he does come all the way back?

I like Love a lot. I think he fits what Nagy wants of his backs nearly perfectly...if he's the same guy we saw before his ACL.

Ordinarily, I'd be okay with rolling dice on that kind of risk in Round 4.
But ordinarily, the Bears have more than one Day 2 pick to mitigate that kind of gamble.
That's the rub... my opinion is all contingent upon the Bears liking his medicals.

Nagy doesn't want or need a feature back so this kid, theoretically, doesn't need to be active until after week 6. You can live with giving the bulk of the carries to Davis/Cohen/Patterson. Tricky thing is if the Bears put Love on the 53 and he's active on game days he's going to need to be contributing heavily on special teams.
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If you draft Love in say...R4, you almost have to draft another RB in the 7th.
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wab wrote:If you draft Love in say...R4, you almost have to draft another RB in the 7th.
Just as long as that 2nd RB in R7 isn't Rodney Anderson. :)
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Can someone breakdown Miles Sanders for me? I don’t get the hype at all...
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With Sanders it's all about projecting his traits and flashes. He's been productive but hasn't done what he'll be asked to do with the Bears consistently. The risk associated with him is that he won't be able to do what you need. He has the traits, though, and flashes them frequently.

His shortcomings are less physical athleticism than others.
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alexwilkins wrote:Can someone breakdown Miles Sanders for me? I don’t get the hype at all...
https://walterfootball.com/scoutingrepo ... anders.php

https://walterfootball.com/draft2019RB.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNCXEx-ns5c&t=77s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmuYS11-4Ls

If the RB position was valued more in the NFL he would be drafted higher than current projections (rounds 2 to 3 per Walter Football). Not much wear and tear on him at all. Only one full season as the starter due to playing behind Barkley. From what I can find online (I have not watched any Penn State college football this past season.), Penn State runs a zone blocking scheme which matches what the Bears tried doing last year. Penn State also runs RPOs. The transition to Nagy's offense should be pretty smooth. I don't see why he couldn't be a three down back for us.

With us having 10 picks next year it wouldn't bother me at all if we used some of that and traded up for him this year. I think what could happen is that we trade up for him, a bunch of people complain that we overpaid, but in reality we don't need 10 picks next year and its worth making a trade up to get our guy.
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alexwilkins wrote:Can someone breakdown Miles Sanders for me? I don’t get the hype at all...
https://walterfootball.com/scoutingrepo ... anders.php

https://walterfootball.com/draft2019RB.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNCXEx-ns5c&t=77s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmuYS11-4Ls

If the RB position was valued more in the NFL he would be drafted higher than current projections (rounds 2 to 3 per Walter Football). Not much wear and tear on him at all. Only one full season as the starter due to playing behind Barkley. From what I can find online (I have not watched any Penn State college football this past season.), Penn State runs a zone blocking scheme which matches what the Bears tried doing last year. Penn State also runs RPOs. The transition to Nagy's offense should be pretty smooth. I don't see why he couldn't be a three down back for us.

With us having 10 picks next year it wouldn't bother me at all if we used some of that and traded up for him this year. I think what could happen is that we trade up for him, a bunch of people complain that we overpaid, but in reality we don't need 10 picks next year and its worth making a trade up to get our guy.
I have no problem with Pace using one of next year’s picks to get his guy this year, but I don’t want to waste them. They can always trade for a 2021 pick and stock up on future pics that way too.
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Mattisson from Boise either 7th or FA
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Sanders has all the traits you would expect with a top tier RB. I have heard some say he isn't eplosive off a cut but I disagree. He has rarely good vision, balance, good hands,
and can make his own yards. Realistically without Barkley herw would have had an amazing career.
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With Sanders I see a back that is decent in most traits but he doesn't possess one trait that "wows" you. Jack of all trades, master of none IMO. I don't think I'd trade up for him. If he's there at 87, sure pull the trigger. But I wouldn't trade future picks to get him.
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SC Bear wrote:Mattisson from Boise either 7th or FA
I like Mattison quite a bit as well.

Don't think he'll make it to Round 7 (though stranger things have certainly happened), but I'd be happy with him as a Bear.
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Nice twitter thread on Singletary here:

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G08 wrote:Nice twitter thread on Singletary here:

https://twitter.com/DanDeYoung80/status ... 6788136960" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Saw that, it was a good read. However, I'm not that high on Singletary in Nagy's offense. I think the Bears need a back that can take it to the house on occasion. Singletary has excellent vision but he's not that explosive. If the Bears end up going with him, fine, but I just can't see backs like him, Montgomery, Snell, etc. fitting into what Nagy wants to do at the RB position. I know they've met with him a couple of times.
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G08 wrote:Nice twitter thread on Singletary here:

https://twitter.com/DanDeYoung80/status ... 6788136960" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Saw that, it was a good read. However, I'm not that high on Singletary in Nagy's offense. I think the Bears need a back that can take it to the house on occasion. Singletary has excellent vision but he's not that explosive. If the Bears end up going with him, fine, but I just can't see backs like him, Montgomery, Snell, etc. fitting into what Nagy wants to do at the RB position. I know they've met with him a couple of times.
I don't know if we need someone who can take it to the house (although that would be ideal), I think we need someone who can find the hole, hit it, and consistently get positive yards. Once we're able to establish the run it will open up so much more for Mitch in the passing game. Ideally this back would have great vision and be versatile enough where you don't know if the back is going to line up in the backfield or in the slot to run routes.
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Singletary is a pretty good case study on the value of measurement thresholds when looking at suboptimal competition.
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This dude... I like him in the 4th or 5th round

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Man... I know I'm a homer, but I'm leaning more and more towards Dexter Williams. Especially of Sanders is goes in the top 60 picks (as most expect).
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Ryquell doesn't really excite me all that much. He'd be an okay option, I suppose.
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Biggest problems with Ryquell are his lack of make-'em-miss and his passing game exposure. He's not especially exciting, I agree, but he's tough, durable, and productive. Bears could do a lot worse.
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DaSuperfan wrote:Ryquell doesn't really excite me all that much. He'd be an okay option, I suppose.
He runs so fucking hard and when he sees a hole he hits it. I like that and I like his ability to take it to the house. He's a bit reckless and he lacks patience, but the way he punishes tacklers and pushes the pile makes me giddy.
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This seems so stupid to me. That we had a three headed monster at RB for atleast next year. Now all of a sudden we are looking to draft a RB becuase it is a position of need in a draft that RB is one of the weakest positions in this draft.

This makes no damn sense to me. Screw the RB unless we gamble on greatness in Love, Other then that screw drafting a RB. None of them really stand out except Love.
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EricTighe wrote:This seems so stupid to me. That we had a three headed monster at RB for atleast next year. Now all of a sudden we are looking to draft a RB becuase it is a position of need in a draft that RB is one of the weakest positions in this draft.

This makes no damn sense to me. Screw the RB unless we gamble on greatness in Love, Other then that screw drafting a RB. None of them really stand out except Love.
You can't just not draft a position, even if it's for depth, because you are mad about the Jordan Howard thing.
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wab you're going to have to sell me on Dexter Williams man. I see the same thing that I see in Mike Weber... just a guy.
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