ESPN's redraft of the 2024 NFL Draft wouldn't fix Chicago Bears' biggest issue

Given the struggles that Caleb Williams amidst the dysfunction of the Chicago Bears' offense as a whole, many national pundits are beginning to lose brain cells when discussing all that is going wrong in Chicago.

The hope for the Bears is that the firing of Shane Waldron and emergence of Thomas Brown as the team's new offensive coordinator will at least get Williams back in the right direction in terms of his development. The direction he appeared to be headed in after the Bears' victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in London.

Nevertheless, considering the regression we have seen from Williams in the last three weeks, that has added volume to the idea that the Bears selected the wrong quarterback with the first overall selection in 2024 NFL Draft. The believed mistake is something that Mel Kiper Jr. corrected in his redraft of the 2024 NFL Draft.

Instead of the Bears taking Williams with the first overall selection, Kiper has the team taking Jayden Daniels. It's a very easy correction to make when looking at it from a national perspective but the problem with the redraft is that it wouldn't correct the mistakes that were made prior to the Bears selecting Williams.

Those mistakes include bringing back Matt Eberflus for a third season, hiring Waldron as the offensive coordinator, and avoiding legitimate upgrades to the offensive line. Given that recipe for disaster, there wouldn't have been a path for Daniels to succeed with the Bears as he has with Washington Commanders.

While we're on the topic of Daniels succeeding with the Commanders, look at the past six games of the Commanders' rookie quarterback and Williams.

Player 1 is Daniels, and player 2 is Williams. That does not excuse Williams's performance over the last three weeks but reminds us that there are natural ebbs and flows of a rookie season for a quarterback at the NFL level.