Chicago Bears: Breakdown of Ryan Pace’s 2020 NFL Draft

Round 5 – Trades and More

Ryan Pace made the bold move to trade next year’s fourth-round draft pick for an additional fifth-round pick to start his day three. At first, I was a bit sad because I thought he just moved up using his late-day picks. I had hoped he would just knock it out of the park in round six.

I was relieved when I had heard he still had this year’s fifth. A bigger smile came to my face when he selected Trevis Gipson, another player who was leaked on my list. I feel the Chicago Bears desperately need to add a pure third pass rusher to this team.

I figured they might find one in Yetur Gross-Matos had he slipped far enough or take a flier on Julian Okwara earlier. But Gipson caught my eye along with about two other day-three prospects. I am not sure what happened with Bradlee Anae, as I thought that would be an excellent choice, but I couldn’t be happier with Gipson.

The Chicago Bears just can’t afford to go out there with Khalil Mack and Robert Quinn and expect them to play as much as Mack did last year. That’s how injuries occur and how a lack of result happens.

They don’t need double-digit sack guys from their backups, but they needed something better than Aaron Lynch and Isaiah Irving. Good teams have multiple edge rushers on their sides. So who was going to the next pick?

I thought this could have been the perfect spot to draft Antiono Brooks Jr. The people wanted a safety, and he is that typical box almost linebacker safety. The Chicago Bears had talked with him. Amos was a fifth-round selection, and it just made sense.

The pick was Kindle Vildor. A small school corner who is very athletic. I mean 4.44 40-yard dash, 39.5″ vert and benched  22 reps of 225. Those are fantastic combine numbers. Another physical press-man corner. That kind of follows the trend of another topic we covered on how the Chicago Bears defense could be changing a bit. Vildor could be a solid back up early but might become something better in the future. His special team’s value should help him hold his place on this team.