Chicago Frontrunner GM Candidate Phil Emery Was a Bears College Scout

Phil Emery is the Front Runner for the Bears GM job. Back in the day – from 1998 to 2004 to be more precise, he was an area scout for the Beloved. Here are some of the players that were drafted under his watch, courtesy of drafthistory.com:

2003	1	1	14	14	Michael Haynes	DE	Penn State
	2	1	22	22	Rex Grossman	QB	Florida
	3	2	3	35	Charles Tillman	DB	Louisiana-Lafayette
	4	3	4	68	Lance Briggs	LB	Arizona
	5	4	3	100	Todd Johnson	DB	Florida
	6	4	19	116	Ian Scott	DT	Florida
	7	5	4	139	Bobby Wade	WR	Arizona
	8	5	8	143	Justin Gage	WR	Missouri
	9	5	36	171	Tron Lafavor	DT	Florida
	10	6	18	191	Joe Odom	LB	Purdue
	11	6	33	206	Brock Forsey	RB	Boise State
	12	7	47	261	Bryan Anderson	G	Pittsburgh
2002	1	1	29	29	Marc Colombo	T	Boston College
	2	3	7	72	Roosevelt Williams	DB	Tuskegee
	3	3	28	93	Terrence Metcalf	G	Mississippi
	4	4	6	104	Alex Brown	DE	Florida
	5	5	5	140	Bobby Gray	DB	Louisiana Tech
	6	5	30	165	Bryan Knight	LB	Pittsburgh
	7	6	27	199	Adrian Peterson	RB	Georgia Southern
	8	6	31	203	Jamin Elliott	WR	Delaware
	9	6	38	210	Bryan Fletcher	TE	UCLA
2001	1	1	8	8	David Terrell	WR	Michigan
	2	2	7	38	Anthony Thomas	RB	Michigan
	3	3	6	68	Mike Gandy	G	Notre Dame
	4	4	8	103	Karon Riley	DE	Minnesota
	5	5	7	138	Bernard Robertson	T	Tulane
	6	7	8	208	John Capel	WR	Florida
2000	1	1	9	9	Brian Urlacher	LB	New Mexico
	2	2	8	39	Mike Brown	DB	Nebraska
	3	3	7	69	Dez White	WR	Georgia Tech
	4	3	25	87	Dustin Lyman	LB	Wake Forest
	5	4	31	125	Reggie Austin	DB	Wake Forest
	6	6	4	170	Frank Murphy	RB	Kansas State
	7	6	8	174	Paul Edinger	K	Michigan State
	8	7	17	223	James Cotton	LB	Ohio State
	9	7	48	254	Michael Green	DB	Northwestern State (LA)
1999	1	1	12	12	Cade McNown	QB	UCLA
	2	2	17	48	Russell Davis	DT	North Carolina
	3	3	5	66	Rex Tucker	T	Texas A&M
	4	3	10	71	D’Wayne Bates	WR	Northwestern
	5	3	17	78	Marty Booker	WR	N.E. Louisiana
	6	4	11	106	Warrick Holdman	LB	Texas A&M
	7	4	16	111	Rosevelt Colvin	DE	Purdue
	8	5	10	143	Jerry Wisne	G	Notre Dame
	9	5	11	144	Khari Samuel	LB	Massachusetts
	10	5	14	147	Jerry Azumah	DB	New Hampshire
	11	6	15	184	Rashard Cook	DB	USC
	12	7	15	221	Sulecio Sanford	WR	Middle Tennessee State
	13	7	47	253	James Finn	RB	Pennsylvania
1998	1	1	5	5	Curtis Enis	RB	Penn State
	2	2	5	35	Tony Parrish	DB	Washington
	3	3	3	64	Olin Kreutz	C	Washington
	4	4	2	94	Alonzo Mayes	TE	Oklahoma State
	5	6	4	157	Chris Draft	LB	Stanford
	6	6	36	189	Patrick Mannelly	G	Duke
	7	7	28	217	Chad Overhauser	G	UCLA
	8	7	43	232	Moses Moreno	QB	Colorado State

I rest my case.

To be fair, I don’t know what areas he covered during the entire tenure, but we do know that he was instrumental in the drafting of Rex Grossman. Now can I rest my case?

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