Best of the Bears: Chicago has defensive weaknesses to address in NFL Draft

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🗓️ 28 March 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In the Best of the Bears this week, Marshall Harris and Mark Grote discussed how Chicago can address its defensive holes in the NFL Draft and examined general manager Ryan Poles' history in drafting players on that side of the ball; Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed the state of the Bears' defensive tackle position; and Leila Rahimi and Grote discussed how quarterback Caleb Williams could become quite the recruiter for the organization.

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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.
0:37.9	Philosophically, I feel the same.
0:39.2	It's going to be the best player available.
0:48.2	I know that may not be the most popular thing because people see kind of like on my board have yellow tags where we need to fill in.
0:54.4	But at the same time, I do believe, especially in early rounds like one, you really got to stick the best player available.
0:56.0	We saw that last year.
0:57.4	I know there's a lot of questions.
0:58.3	You got Cole.
0:59.2	Why would you take Colston?
1:02.6	I think we found out that it helped us along the way.
1:05.1	So we'll continue to lean in that philosophy.
1:08.6	Welcome back into Rahimi Harris and Grotie. Ryan Poles, the general manager of the Chicago Bears at the Combine.
1:14.7	He'd got it right last year. He did. Best player available. I don't blame him for pointing to his 2025 resume and say, see, we did it.
1:24.8	We took the best player available, and he's's right it was a little bit of a surprise that
1:28.5	they went with colson lovelin really the big surprise was that they didn't go with tyler warren in
1:32.7	that spot but i think that we can all agree that we're pretty happy with that luther bird in a second
1:37.2	rounder which probably took some people off guard as well and then ozie trepillo as well one of those
1:43.0	second rounders.
1:44.3	So, yes, it was a pillow.
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