Hello! Happy Wednesday to everyone. I am Matt Williamson. This is the Locked-on NFL podcast. I urge you to check out my website, WilliamsonFootball.com. There's lots of good stuff. More and more going up every day. In-depth analysis. I'm at Twitter at Williamson NFL. I've been doing this for the better part now of 18 years. I work for Steelers Nation

Radio. I was at ESPN for 10 years. I was scout for Browns. I was a recruiting assistant with

the Pitt Panthers for three years, director of football ops for the University of Akron.

And we've been going division by division breaking down these draft classes.

And we are on the NFC North.

Tomorrow we'll take a break for Twitter Thursday.

And then we will conclude the NFC with the NFC East on Friday.

I did the first, I did the west and the south already.

So check those out if you haven't.

They're very good. Of course they're.

Bears. Love this draft. One of the articles I've wrote basically as soon as the draft ended

for my website were, I think it was five or six of my favorite draft classes. And the bears

were absolutely in that. And I started the sentence about the bears with

Butkus, Singletary, Erlacker, Roquan. Yes, that's a little, putting the horse a little above

in front of the cart, but this is exactly the player, the tradition, the position, the talent, the leadership, the playmaking,

fitting a need. This is a great pick. And for those of you don't know, you know, Fangio,

their defensive coordinator, he was in San Francisco with Bowman and Willis, and he prefers to keep two linebackers

on the field in all times, and therefore he wants stars, versatile, explosive guys. Smith fits

that extremely well. I mean, in today's NFL, he's exactly what you look for on the second

level. Leader, tough, explosive.

I mean, I can't say enough good things about this.

And it was a need position for them.

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