Best of the Bears: Best strategy for using 25th overall pick in NFL Draft

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In the Best of the Bears this week, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes debated what the best strategy is for Chicago to use in the early rounds of the NFL Draft; Marshall Harris and Gabe Ramirez discussed the Bears' left tackle problem and where veteran Braxton Jones fits in the mix; and Mike Mulligan and David Haugh pondered whether it would be wise for the Bears to trade up or down from No. 25 overall in the first round of the NFL Draft.

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0:00.0	Thanks everybody.
0:03.3	You're listening to the best of the bears.
0:06.8	He's it for the touchdown and the Chicago Bears have taken the league.
0:10.9	A weekly mix of 670 the score's best NFL talk to get you ready for game day. Day.
0:36.1	Get comfortable being uncomfortable.
0:38.9	It's time for Ben's vision.
0:41.6	Our entire organization is fired up about Ben Johnson and its vision for winning football.
0:43.3	Projecting how the Bears' roster will take shape under Ben Johnson.
0:46.4	Ben's vision is going to be principal.
0:49.8	These are the type of players that I need.
0:51.8	That's the vision.
0:52.8	If it doesn't fit Ben's vision, are you willing to move on from certain guys?
0:57.0	Really enjoy hearing Beans' vision.
0:59.2	Current roster, free agents, and the draft.
1:01.3	We got a vision.
1:02.2	Ryan does a great job of stacking that board, him and his crew.
1:05.5	Venn's vision.
1:06.2	I cannot wait to get to work.
1:07.7	With Spiegel and Holmes on 104.3, the score.
1:13.4	A little over a week to the NFL draft, and the bears are in a really good spot.
1:21.0	If you look at it from the perspective of they were good, and because they were good,
1:26.6	they are drafting a lot lower than what you're
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