Why the Chicago Bears could take Jaxon Smith-Njigba at nine in the 2023 NFL Draft

The Chicago Bears should keep drafting OSU wide receivers

Everybody knows about Marvin Harrison Jr. Why would there be a falloff between them? Don't @ me because he is the son of a legendary NFL player. Randy Moss's kid never turned into anything special in college. Justin Fields holds on to the ball for too long. DJ Moore will help with that, but a dedicated slot WR would further help with the quick game. Yes, I had faith in Darnell Mooney becoming a number-one receiver. DeVonte Smith and Jaylen Waddle (similar builds and playstyles) looked like they could do it, so I thought, why not Mooney?

I let some of the Bear juices run through my brain. Those two receivers were far better prospects than Mooney. And their teams went and traded for top receivers anyway. Going this route, the Chicago Bears would be building it slightly differently than those teams, but the results could be the same. Getting back to Smith-Njigba, there is an injury concern. However, in 2021 it wasn't Olave or Wilson who was the go-to man in that offense.

There was some chatter that if Smith-Njigba were healthy enough to play in 2022, OSU would have won the National Championship. JSN is a game-changer over the middle of the field. As Allen Robinson did for Mooney, JSN was that guy for Wilson and Olave. You could say that the two deep threats opened the middle of the field for JSN, fine. I'll argue that is what would happen at the NFL level with the combination of Moore, Claypool, or Mooney, then.