Something weird is going on. People thought they had a firm grasp of what the Chicago Bears have available for the upcoming 2025 NFL draft. They hold three picks in the top 41. However, they lost their 4th round pick to the Buffalo Bills when trading back into the 2024 draft to grab Austin Booker. That means after their 3rd round selection, they would have to wait all the way until the 5th before picking again. Fairly clear, right? Well, it seems some confusing information has surfaced over the past 24 hours.
According to ESPN, the Carolina Panthers hold the 114th overall pick in the 4th round next month. They received this by trading wide receiver Jonathan Mingo to the Dallas Cowboys.
Now, it gets crazy. According to NFL.com, it is not the Panthers who own that pick but the Bears. It’s listed directly on their website.
Immediately, your thought is that it is just a mistake by whoever wrote the column. Their information was off. Nope. Move over to the Chicago Bears’ own website, and they, too, list the 114th pick as one they own.
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Did they swing a deal with Carolina for that pick without anybody noticing? The league reports all trades. There is almost no way the two teams exchanging that pick would’ve gone completely ignored. The only logical explanation is that this is some accounting error by the league that hasn’t yet been corrected. Then again, if by some miracle the Chicago Bears do hold the rights to that pick, it may go down as one of the greatest mysteries in recent memory, especially if they were to somehow land a good player with it. There is a reasonable assumption this issue will be untangled once the draft draws closer. Based on the information available, the pick likely still belongs to Carolina and this was a simple mistake.
@ barry, that makes more sense than this supposed mystery. DanWeiderer just laughed at this supposed controversy on the score670.
NFL.com updated their pickers for each team today and they still have the Bears with 4-114. AI can’t correct stupidity I guess. It’s a simple input error that has taken on this life thanks to Lambert being too lazy to research it, and too vein to correct himself
@Krisanthony I still like my explanation the most
@FootballAtArlington1 So your contention is that NFL.com, which has to track every teams draft data, is less likely to make an error than the team that just posts its own data? Lets see what Panthers.com has to offer: 1-8 2-57 (from Rams) 3-74 4-111 4-114 (from Cowboys) Knowing how every detail of every trade that would bring extra picks is widely reported by the local media, you seem to believe that they overlooked it? You know better. Please stop falling for Lambert’s clearly lazy work. Like the 12 year old that he writes like, he wants to believe in nfl… Read more »
Which is why nobody here believes anything you post here silly
Keep meowing little pussy cat
I’l take it. If Ryan Poles is indeed getting free picks from other teams, even I’ll give him praise for that.
Maybe Poles got hold of some of Aaron Rodger’s ayahuasca and sent Carolina a gift box?