Chicago Bears fans couldn’t help but feel disappointed. For months, all they’d heard from draft experts was how special the 2025 running back class was. You had potential starters everywhere and even a few possible stars. Yet for six rounds, the Bears failed to take advantage. This wasn’t out of misguided arrogance, mind you. Ryan Poles admitted the original plan had been to grab somebody much earlier. Unfortunately, other teams always seemed to take guys they wanted right before they went on the clock. Rather than force the issue, Poles stuck to his board. Finally, the team took that running back in the 7th round, selecting Kyle Monangai out of Rutgers.
It was a poor consolation prize for fans who dreamed of Ashton Jeanty and TreVeyon Henderson. However, not everybody was unimpressed with the pick. Emory Hunt covers college football for CBS and is a prominent draft expert. He expressed tons of love for the Bears’ selection of Monangai. If things play out as he expects, Chicago may have found their version of Ahmad Bradshaw.
For those who don’t remember, the former 7th round pick out of Marshall became a two-time 1,000-yard rusher for the New York Giants and won two Super Bowls.
Kyle Monangai is your classic overachiever.
When teams look at him, all they see is a guy who is an average athlete with average size. However, history shows again and again that such things don’t matter as much at running back. If you have power, contact balance, and vision, there is a good chance you can be productive in the NFL. Kyle Monangai checks each of those boxes. He is difficult to bring down on the first tackle, has a great feel for where the openings will be, and was highly productive in a top college football conference for two years. He may not have the three-down capability of the top prospects in this draft, but he has everything required to be an instant contributor in the ground game moving forward.
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@Krisanthony — All the strawmen and red herring you conjure up cannot change the empirical evidence; nor a reasonable evaluation of the data I posted, earlier. But, if you really want to understand my disappointment in Ryan Poles as the Bears GM — contact @Dr. Melhus and ask him to whip out his Rich Hill Draft Capital trade value chart, and calculate the Bears vs. the BIlls draft day trades in which the Bears ended up with: Ozzy Trapilo, Shemar Turner, Zah Frazier and Ruben Hyppolite; while the Bills walked off with TJ Sanders, Landon Jackson, Deone Walker and Kaden… Read more »
@BearDownTX —
Does that mean you want to run the Tremaine Edmunds versus Payton Wilson assessment, again this year?
Can’t wait!
PS. Remember, the original issue was whether a “still-incapacitated” Kiran Amegadjie was a prudent selection at pick #75.
I suggested Payton Wilson if one of the requirements was a prior serious injury.
And @Tred blew us all away with his suggestion of an able-bodied OL in Dominivk Puni.
@Tred gets the concept of BPA — “best player available” as an integral part of building a winning NFL team.
Take notes…
Again TGEna spewing the same tired rhetoric of Payton Wilson. I agreed with you that he is a stud, but where we were last year, we couldn’t draft him when we needed so much more than linebackers. Especially with two of our three linebackers locked up on contract, you can’t get out of. They were never going to make the Wilson pick, because they couldn’t afford it with your stated 50m in Edmunds. IF they cut Edmunds they still owed him, and he still would of counted against the cap. Secondly, you aren’t going to add a LB when we… Read more »
@TGana. So to be clear, you’re basing your evaluation on a data base that alleges to be able to accurately tell you if an offensive guard should be ranked 269th or 380th based on all Offensive guards available? I find this a big leap of faith in some universal scouting system. We agree in the basics. The top of the draft ( rounds 1,2 and 3) are where you’re likely to find immediate upgrades to your roster. As an example, The top 10 offensive guards out of 350 offensive guards are generally easier to spot than figuring out who falls… Read more »
@Tw Wad Douche: don’t push your god delusion on to me.
You got it for football too. Your typical ignorance based on emotional mystical faith, not on Hellenic rationality or logical empiricism.