Laurence Holmes

Third rounder.

Third rounder by your boy, Ryan Poles.

And so, no, what I'm saying is...

That's him letting us know, hey, I'm hurt.

I'm trying.

I'm giving myself a little bit of grace.

I'm not necessarily even asking you to give me grace.

I'm just asking you to understand where we are in this process.

Well, the other thing is,

It's not just that there's no left tackle there in the first round.

There's just no left tackle in any of the picks.

And I'm going to ask you a different question.

What would it mean to the Bears if they didn't take a tackle until the later rounds?

Maybe trading up to get in some of those rounds where they don't have a pick currently.

I think if you can say the first four, five picks are not a tackle, that can strengthen your team in so many ways if you just already have your tackle in-house.

And I don't know if that's putting blind faith in Ozzie Trapillo's ability to come back at some point.

I don't know if that's putting too much faith into the guys, as you mentioned, whether it's Benedette, whether it's Jones, to take that spot and run with it.

Because clearly that didn't happen a year ago, last year, when we were having this conversation.

And so I just think a lot of good can be done if Braxton Jones can make my pulling for him pay off and he's the starting left tackle.

Because we know Ben Johnson has a standard.