Bears should avoid drafting a QB in the early rounds, says NFL Draft analyst

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Jalen Hurts? Jake Fromm? JUSTIN HERBERT?! (sorry. I'm sorry. i'm trying to remove it.) Leading up to this year's NFL Draft, the Bears have been ever-so-slightly linked to the idea of taking a quarterback with one of their two second round picks. And while some of it may be some high-grade pageview mining, take one look at the depth chart and suddenly it doesn't seem *that* nuts. 

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That being said, the idea is more of a hit in some circles than others, as the vast majority don't much see the point of taking a QB that high with Mitch Trubisky and Nick Foles on the roster. Consider NFL Network's Draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah one of those people. Earlier in the week, Jeremiah hopped on a conference call with reporters to chat all things NFL Draft, and because time is a flat circle, a question about Chicago's quarterback situation came up. Should the Bears make an early-round move?t

Wow. That's a great question.Picking at 43 and 50, when you look at the quarterbacks that can kind of be in range there, I think you're looking at Jacob Eason. I think you're looking at Jalen Hurts. I think those would be the guys you'd be choosing from right there. I think Jake Fromm is probably not a great fit in Chicago. So those would be the two guys that you'd be trying to sort out and figure out there.I look at where they are right now. I look at the coaching staff and their familiarity with Nick Foles, and I just think it makes more sense to have that competition, to see if Trubisky, what he can do under that type of pressure, and you know what you have in Nick Foles. I would not use one of those two picks on a quarterback. If you wanted to trade back at some point in time and look for a guy in the middle rounds like a guy like Jake Luton from Oregon State, I'd rather take somebody like that later on down in the draft and use those other two picks to try and help your football team right now. I just don't like the options they're going to have right there at that point.

It's a pretty sturdy argument. For better or for worse, the Bears have hitched their wagon to Trubisky and Foles. There are glaring holes on the offensive line and at tight end, not to mention deficiencies in the secondary that need to be addressed. Never say never when it comes to Ryan Pace, but with a relatively shallow pool of draft capital to work with, using an early-round pick on a project doesn't seem like the prudent decision heading into 2020. But it would be the most fun! 

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