Field Yates Finds the BEST Value Picks in the Chicago Bears NFL Draft
CHGO Chicago Bears Podcast
ALLCITY Network
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The best in the business. |
| 0:01.8 | My guy, ESPN, the draft expert, fantasy football, |
| 0:05.8 | every expert, anything football. |
| 0:07.7 | The great field, Yates, joining us here on the CHGO Bears Pockers. |
| 0:11.0 | Where are you field? |
| 0:12.0 | You look like you're in somewhere fun, maybe. |
| 0:14.9 | Oh, I'm in a dimly lit studio here at ESPN. |
| 0:19.0 | We're arguing about consensus boards for the last week field. So save us |
| 0:23.8 | because, you know, obviously it's all trust in Ben Johnson here in Chicago. But your overall view |
| 0:31.7 | of this conversation of what's a reach, what's a team board, what's a consensus, you know, pick versus what the Bears did |
| 0:40.9 | here in this draft? There was only one player that I thought was a surprise to see where he |
| 0:45.8 | want from the Bears' layout of picks. And that was Xavier and Thomas who, and Ben We Trust probably |
| 0:53.4 | applies to a wide receiver like that. |
| 0:55.5 | Let's talk about some of the things that Zavian brings to the table that I think would make him |
| 0:59.5 | appealing and make him the kind of guy that might not last much longer than where the Bears did. |
| 1:05.5 | He's incredibly fast. |
| 1:07.0 | He's like four or three fast. |
| 1:09.1 | Good size. |
| 1:09.9 | He was underutilized this past year at LSU. The offense was just kind of a mess this past season. But he can flat out fly. And we know that Ben Johnson has an affinity for speed. I don't know if you guys have yet watched the video the Bears released about their free agency plans. And they are focusing mostly on the defensive side of the ball. |
| 1:28.5 | But they kept talking about the need to get faster. |
| 1:31.1 | And I think the need to get faster on defense underscores that they know that fast offenses |
| 1:36.5 | are going to be harder to defend. |
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