The Bears traded the No. 41 decide of the draft to the Payments on Friday night time in a deal that noticed six alternatives exchanged.
The Bears moved down 15 picks from 41 to 56. They received the Payments’ two second-round picks — No. 56 and 62 — and the Payments’ fourth-rounder, No. 109. The Bears additionally traded the No. 72 decide and their seventh-rounder to the Payments.
The Bears took Boston School deal with Ozzy Trapilo with Choose 56. At 6-8, 316 kilos, Trapilo began 12 video games at proper deal with in every of the previous two seasons after beginning 10 instances at left deal with in 2022.
Trapilo’s father Steve died in 2004 however was an All-American deal with at BC who blocked for Doug Flutie throughout the Eagles’ well-known Hail Mary. Bears common supervisor Ryan Poles is a Boston School alum, although he performed lengthy after the elder Trapilo.
The transfer was Ryan Poles’ first commerce of the draft — and his eighth draft-day trade-down in 4 years.
The Bears spent their first two picks within the draft on pass-catchers: tight finish Colston Loveland, who was picked 10th on Thursday night time, and Missouri receiver Luther Burden, who went 39th to the Bears. The Saints held the 40th decide between the Bears’ two second-round alternatives.
Poles mentioned Thursday that the Bears explored each buying and selling up and buying and selling down within the first spherical earlier than finally deciding to do neither.
On Tuesday, two days earlier than the Bears would draft him and alter his life endlessly, Loveland helped model cattle again residence in Gooding, Idaho.
In a contentious letter to the Chicago Park District, Bears President Kevin Warren complained in regards to the bodily situation of Soldier Area and its operations, which he blamed on “the dearth of routine upkeep and capital enhancements.”
