The Bears are 4-9 going into their recreation on the Vikings on Monday, which is a brutal reality after their 4-2 start. However the upside to their spiral is it has them in place for a worthwhile draft choose.
They maintain the No. 9 choose heading into Week 15 and have the NFL’s hardest remaining schedule, beginning with the Vikings (11-2), adopted by house video games in opposition to the Lions (12-1) and Seahawks (8-5) and the finale on the Packers (9-4).
ESPN Analytics’ newest calculation tasks them to select tenth and offers them lower than a 1% likelihood of touchdown the No. 1 choose and a 6.1% likelihood of choosing within the high 5. The Bears are sitting behind two 2-11 groups and 6 3-10 groups. Solely one of many groups forward of them in draft order, the Patriots, beat them this season.
It’ll be a excessive choose both manner, and the Bears have main wants to handle with a premium useful resource like that. They might land a beginning move rusher, offensive deal with or defensive deal with and nonetheless have two picks within the second spherical that presently are slotted at Nos. 36 and 41.
