Kayden McDonald or Caleb Banks? Who's a Better NFL Draft Fit for the Chicago Bears?
CHGO Chicago Bears Podcast
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🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And as promised, we bring in our draft expert. Become a diehard so you can read the draft guide. |
| 0:06.6 | It's like it's one of the best things we offer. I mean, Carms grades are right there, but probably |
| 0:11.9 | not quite as, uh, probably one B. Yeah. It's, it's, it's in there. Frant fantastic, Fran Duffy |
| 0:18.6 | with us here as we, you know, you know I the focus we got a ton of |
| 0:22.1 | questions from the discord for you Fran we'll get to those in a second but your |
| 0:26.0 | latest mock is out and I'll let you talk about who you landed on at number |
| 0:30.1 | 25 for the Bears yeah car first of all I mean I am definitely one B in that |
| 0:35.7 | one a one B situation as we all know I mean, I am definitely 1B in that 1A, 1B situation, as we all know. |
| 0:37.5 | I would say that so the exercise that just went up for all die-hards this week is what, you know, |
| 0:46.6 | I think last year we talked about it called it like the crowdsourcing mock draft, consensus |
| 0:51.0 | mock draft, but the idea of it is basically canvassing the mock drafts that have been released in the last, you know, I call it about like month and a half, like since the end of the regular season, where, all right, let me look at just the notable draft out, because we know there's a million and one mock drafts out there. Everybody in their mother puts out a mock. So let me just look at the notable names in the |
| 1:10.8 | industry, right? So we're going, you know, the Dane Brubler's and the Mel Kipers and the Daniel |
| 1:15.3 | Jeremiah, the people that are tied in that are plugged in. Let's take a look at all of these |
| 1:20.1 | mocks and just get a sense of like who are the players that are being talked about with each selection. |
| 1:25.4 | And there's a lot of information that you can gain from an exercise like this. Obviously, if you are a Bears fan, you can look and say, all right, like, who were the players that the people that are at the top of the industry are talking about for my team? But then there's also, hey, I really want the bears to select Caleb Banks, who ended up being the selection for the Bears in that draft. |
| 1:45.5 | But if I really like Caleb Banks, how early is he being talked about? |
| 1:50.0 | How late is he being talked about? |
| 1:51.4 | What are the chances that he can make it there? |
| 1:53.4 | So I think that those are all very, and that's the two of like three or four different |
| 1:57.3 | bits of information that you can gain from this exercise. |
| 1:59.8 | But yeah, to me, it's a fun exercise to do. And it's something I've been doing, honestly, personally for the last like four, five, six years. So the worst part of what you just said there is that I realized that I need to do my bears, my first Bears mock draft because I usually have that come out the Tuesday after the Super Bowl and is officially |
| 2:17.7 | Wednesday. So miss that deadline. Oops. Hogue slack. Hoag slack. Um, yeah. And last year I went |
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