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Elijah Hicks, I think there's some potential there for him.
He's been more of a special teams standout for the Bears than really making a lot of plays on their defense.
But again, Al Harris, he's shown he can coach guys up on the back end there, so I'm not going to rule out anyone's continued development
They're still just a handful of years into their career.
But Dylan Thienemann is a guy who comes in and he is definitively your starter at safety.
D-line, because of a lot of the personnel expenditures that are there, financially, draft capital, they've put resources in up front.
So I think part of what we see from the Dylan Thienemann pick as well is that
they feel like the hole at safety, what they need at that position, outweighed what they feel like they would still need in the defensive front.
I think that's one of the conversations we were having earlier in the show, Rami.
And one thing that surprised me, Caden McDonald, us getting out of the first round and Caden McDonald not being off the board, it's not completely shocking, but to what I was kind of describing to you guys a little bit earlier, Justin, I think McDonald –
As much as people are impressed with him, I think he's kind of been typecast a little bit as just kind of the run-defending guy, the two-gap guy, the block hitter, in a way that I don't think really indicates what he's actually going to become once he gets into the NFL.
And day three.
You can look at pretty much every position.
It's like they paid Cole Komet and then drafted a first-round tight end last year, too.
They're at a point in the Ryan Poles era where they've spent some money pretty much everywhere.
So every position room has guys who've been paid and other guys who still need to be drafted.
I'm good, you know.
I know that football is coming to an end, Dave, but it makes me think of spring and baseball and softball season for my daughter.
I get excited for that idea, but obviously one game left, man, one game left.
I saw that today, yeah.