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

Final Rounds

With that selection, it shows the true colors on what Chuck Pagano wants in cornerbacks.  A lot of media members seemed to think he like long and tall press corners with zone experience. That seems to be more of a Vic Fangio thing.  The Dime package should have enough players now with the two corners drafted this year, Duke Shelley, Tre Roberson, and Artie Burns. The competition will be exciting to watch this summer (Hopefully).

Darnell Mooney was the last Chicago Bears fifth-round draft pick in 2020. The Chicago Bears have zero speed within the starting core. That isn’t to say they don’t have deep threats. Allen Robinson is the pure definition of a deep threat.

Some players do it with speed and some players do it with physicality and route running. Taylor Gabriel did have a role that most of the other Chicago Bear receivers can’t do. That’s the bubble screen, swing, and stop routes. Mooney is electric and can turn a quick pass into 70 yards in a hurry.

The other option would have been Cordarrelle Patterson, who will likely still do those things. Those types of routes are a staple in the west coast offense, but I expect Matt Nagy to run less of them and tailor his attack around his players a bit more.

Nagy has some outstanding route runners on this team. He needs to modify is playbook this year towards what he has. Mooney might be thin, but he should be able to gain a bit of weight in the weight room and should only be used so often this upcoming season if the Chicago Bears wanted to focus on an Andy Reid offense they would have targeted a lot more speed on offense.

And lastly, the offensive line pick. I would have assumed Ryan Pace would have taken a few shots on some athletes, but he probably went in with the plan to grab some offensive line sleepers. By the looks of it after the undrafted free agent market started that he had a list of sleepers at the offensive line position that wasn’t highly touted.

What I like about that, is he had a plan of attack entering the draft. Pace talked to quite a few offensive linemen this year. Had he seen one that he felt was worth it, he would have gone out and grabbed it.

It’s not all on Ryan Pace, though. Matt Nagy and the scouts have their input on what they are looking to acquire. Instead of trying to swing towards the top, the Chicago Bears chose to go after the untapped market. I respect that. It might not work, but then again, the draft is still a roll of the dice.