Matt Spiegel
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And he's likely going to move over and be their starting center now.
A very common occurrence.
Don't you think the Bears will draft a center in this particular draft?
it would make sense for them to, unless there is, you know, is there a undrafted free agent project that they would want to take a look at?
Is there someone playing guard who's on a practice squad somewhere that they'd want to take and convert over to center, or maybe has a background in playing center, but this is strangely enough, a decent draft for centers.
Um,
Maybe not you're going to do it in the first round if you're the Bears.
No, no, no.
But there are guys in the third and fourth round that would make for interesting prospects for them.
And Alex Kuhn, as always, has ignored his girlfriend to scout the college football talent that we need on this show.
You got centers that fit what the Bears would do?
Yeah, well, if you're looking for smaller zone-blocking centers, there are a few of them, and a lot of people have pointed out that the Bears were at Kansas State's Pro Day to see Sam Hecht out of Kansas State, who was right at the top of the list with Logan Jones out of Iowa and Jake Slaughter out of Florida.
I know Connor Liu from Auburn is a bigger, as Brandon Thornton would say, sturdier
center but maybe not quite as good in in zone blocking and there's a guy out of texas a&m to keep an eye out on who was a left tackle last year for the aggies but did get 126 snaps at center and had some pretty good tape there that you could get in the fourth or fifth round by the name of trey zune who had the best overall pass blocking grade in all of college football at left tackle
So do we trust Dan Roshar and Ben Johnson, if not Ryan Poles, to come together and find themselves a center project from all this list?
I mean, I think that's what we're going to have to look for.
Sure.
And the thing is that you look at Bradbury as a stopgap, and you sayβ
all right, this guy is here to help, and the hope is that Caleb also takes a step in recognizing and calling out protections, and Bradbury can help in that regard.
He did a wonderful job of doing that with Drake May this past season.