Chicago Bears 2021 NFL Draft: Ideal Round 1 trade-back scenarios
By Ryan Heckman
Chicago Bears fans have to face the facts sooner or later — this team is not going to move all the way up and draft a quarterback within the top five or six picks.
Instead, what many fans have resorted to thinking, might just end up happening. This year could very well end up being a throwaway season while the team fills the gap for the future, and then going after a quarterback in 2022.
We all want to see this team succeed in 2021, but the reality is, general manager Ryan Pace has put the Bears in a tough position. If we are all lucky, Pace will be gone in 2022. If not, who knows what ends up happening.
The fact of the matter is, though, the Bears are more likely to draft a first-round quarterback in 2022 than they are this year.
If the Chicago Bears won’t move up in the first round then they must move back
The possibilities of moving back are endless, quite honestly. The Bears could very well choose to move out of the first round altogether, in order to stack picks and fill as many holes as possible.
If they traded out of the first round completely, the Bears might end up with another second, third and fifth-round pick — or a combination of a second, third, fourth or fifth.
Now, the Bears could also just choose to move back a few spots and still select in the first round. At the same time, they’d acquire at least one more additional pick. In any of those instances, Chicago would win. It would be hard to lose if they just moved back a few spots and were still able to snag one of their top targets in the late first.
Which teams would be willing to make a deal, and whom would the Bears and said teams select in a trade scenario? These next deals make a lot of sense for both sides.