The Chicago Bears revamp the offense in this 2022 NFL mock draft

The Chicago Bears make two more trades in this draft

With the trade with the Tennessee Titans, the Chicago Bears no longer had a second-round pick. Some solid talent went off the board and it was hard to not want to trade up into the second round using future rounds. I channeled my inner Ryan Poles (sorry Ryan Pace, but there is a new Ryan in my life) and decided future draft capital was not worth it.

Instead, when the Chicago Bears were on the clock again in the third round, I saw an opportunity to move back now, but also move up later in the draft. I tried acquiring extra picks, but the only way I could do this included moving back now and gaining a much later pick in the draft. Great NFL teams are not built in the sixth and seventh round.

None of the names on the board jumped out at me while picking in the third and it made more sense to move back.

Since I was unable to gain an additional pick, moving back allowed the Bears to move up from the sixth round and into the fifth round.

The same situation happened again when on the board at 90th overall. Moving out of the third and into the fourth sounds awful, but the 90th-overall pick is essentially a fourth-rounder anyway. The same could be said of that fifth-round pick the Bears gained when swapping their sixth-rounder. This is why I liked this second trade because Ryan Poles could move up from the end of the fifth round and into the upper half of the fifth instead.