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Chicago Bears Draft Prospect: Zach Harrison Continued

It would be best if you never forced the draft board. You either find the position you are looking for at the correct time or don't. I will continue the Bears' theme of acquiring hybrid defenders that can play inside and outside on the defensive line. The Bears brought in Rasheem Green and Demarcus Walker, who can play both while still having Justin Jones as one of "their" guys. Harrison ranks low on the PFF grade scale, and I don't know why. He is the only defensive line prospect to earn over 80 grades in all three seasons he played.

Not only that, the better the team you were that he faced, the better he played last season. If Jalen Carter can get away with being the best player in the draft with 24 pressures each of the last two seasons, Harrison should be ok with 24 and 19 while acquiring more sacks. Harrison practiced against Paris Johnson jr and Dwand Jones daily while lining up against Peter Skoronski, Broderick Jones, Wisconsin, and Norte Dame blockers. And he has stacks of winning reps against them all.

Harrison is 6'5 1/2" and 274 pounds with 36+ inch arms. He still managed 25 reps on the bench with those long arms. I don't know if you bench, but I have long arms, and being that strong with long arms isn't easy. As a 5-star recruit, he weighed 240 pounds and ran a 4.47 40-yard dash with a 40" vertical leap. I know he didn't do the NFL Combine drills, and maybe that is what hurt him, but I promise you, he is nearly as athletic as he was with the 30 pounds of man muscle he added in college. The Bears adding him would be a steal.