Lawrence Holmes

And if they feel like there's something there, because they're not going to move on from a fourth-round pick in year two anyway, but you hope that

at least as a depth piece, if nothing else, maybe as a contributor.

You hope he can grow into that.

But the linebacker core is tenuous mainly because of injury.

Because I think if all those guys were healthy, they could at least feel like they could piece together a couple of starting off-ball linebackers they feel really good about.

There's a lot of injury concerns.

For DJ Moore, he's been in the league for quite a while now and has been a playmaker every season of his career.

At this point, the perception of DJ Moore is still that he's not a fully fleshed out...

wide receiver, but man, is he a playmaker.

And so I don't think the entire league will have the same degree of interest in DJ Moore for what his contract currently is.

Because he's now gotten paid like one of the top playmakers in the sport.

When the Bears acquired him after the Caleb situation, getting the pick, and then you make the move to bring DJ in here, it was a great acquisition at the time, partly because of the contract.

That was there from Carolina.

And so you got a guy who was a really good playmaker and you also got him at a really reasonable contract value.

Then he put together a good resume.

And so they've paid him like one of the top playmakers in the sport.

Is he valued like that?

by the rest of the league.

I would imagine there are going to be particular teams who say yes, if they're teams that are very needy of wide receiver.

I don't look at the diminished numbers from DJ Moore as being as big of concern as how other teams view a guy who's gotten to this stage of his career and whether or not this is the best version of a wide receiver that they'll see DJ Moore play.