NFL DRAFT THOUGHTS: The Bears’ Top Roster Needs Following First Waves of Free Agency

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🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Hoge & Jahns are back LIVE with you on St. Patrick’s Day to answer the following questions that remain with the Chicago Bears Roster after the first wave of free agency. With key moves already made, where should Ryan Poles turn his focus next in the NFL Draft? The guys dive into the biggest needs, including pass rusher, safety, defensive line, center, and cornerback, while setting the stage for Mock Draft 2.0 dropping later this week. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	What's up? Welcome in Hogue and Johns with you in a live edition, as always presented by old
0:17.8	national bank. Every play matters, whether it's on the field or in your financial life, the best teams win by delivering excellence at every level.
0:25.3	Old National Bank where relationships and results matter member FDIC.
0:30.8	Welcome in more more free agency.
0:36.2	Some draft talk on this live edition welcome in appreciate everybody being
0:40.2	here live on youtube and perhaps listening later as a podcast as well what's going on johnzy
0:45.9	happy st patrick's day everybody i see you're in the festive mood wearing some some green for the
0:51.3	show yes this is a c hs shirt you can buy the shirt oh zoom in there
0:56.2	what is what's on there i don't know if i get it's just uh let's say just like that a
1:01.6	is that a shamrack it's it's it's but it's also a boat going down the chicago river
1:08.0	like under bridge and then on the back I don't know if I can
1:11.1	I don't know I can't even show you that but there's like a giant beer on the back I have to get
1:16.4	one of those I like sure all CIO.com go to the merch store if you're a die hard to get 20% off
1:23.2	there you go and we got plenty of content up for you as well. John Zia's new column up this morning.
1:28.4	You want to tell everybody about that?
1:30.1	We taught,
1:30.8	well, obviously we've gotten to know,
1:33.7	well,
1:34.1	the five new defensive players have spoken to the media.
1:37.7	Some over Zoom.
1:39.1	Some in person.
1:40.3	So I put together a story that included all five of them from their interviews.
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