Fran Duffy Breaks Down the Chicago Bears 2026 NFL Draft Class
CHGO Chicago Bears Podcast
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Fran Duffy is here. I know the Eagles just made a few picks. So he was dealing with that in |
| 0:05.6 | Philadelphia. And now he is with us. Fran, we, we've been talking a lot about including |
| 0:12.1 | with you last night when Greg kept threatening you for a defensive lineman. Just look, the bears |
| 0:18.9 | finally got their guy late with their last, last pick. |
| 0:21.7 | Yep. |
| 0:22.1 | Can we clarify exactly what this defensive line? |
| 0:25.6 | And I'm including the defensive tackles and all this too. |
| 0:28.3 | You know, anywhere on the D line, what this class actually was because I think on one hand, |
| 0:33.8 | one hand, the consensus was there aren't a lot of dominant dudes that you would usually |
| 0:39.8 | take like in the top 10 in a normal year. However, there might be a lot of guys that you could |
| 0:46.6 | take anywhere between this, you know, before the second third round or anywhere in that range. |
| 0:52.0 | Like there was, so can you, how did you end up settling this? |
| 0:55.3 | Was it a good defensive line class or not? |
| 0:57.9 | And was the word deep being overused because there were just a lot of sort of okay guys. |
| 1:05.8 | Do you understand what I'm getting at? |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.8 | I think that let's separate like the, uh, the defensive tackle from the edge |
| 1:13.0 | group. |
| 1:14.0 | I think the defensive tackles where the strength was, was like the run stuffers, the penetrating |
| 1:19.0 | like three technically like upfield guys, it was very minimal. |
| 1:22.4 | There were just not, there was not much depth there at all. |
| 1:25.1 | And you saw a few of them go pretty early. |
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