T.J. Parker, Bears could be a match at No. 25 overall in NFL Draft

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes shared insight on a prospect whom the Bears could select at No. 25 overall in the first round of the NFL Draft, which begins Thursday.

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0:00.0	Yes, Ray?
0:01.3	We have a special caller to the hotline. What oh. Dave Wonstead wants to share some things. Coach! What's up, Wani? Coach. Bears. Hey, I'll tell you, what's up? I'm driving out to my daughter's house. I got in yesterday. Does anybody have any interest in talking about the draft today? You listen to 10 minutes of this. Talk more sports. What are we doing, you know?
0:24.6	Come on. All right. Well, Coach Dave in a car. Thanks for your call. Thanks for, Dave. I appreciate it. You refocused the show, man. Thank you. You refocused us. You got us back on track. Thank you. Let me.
0:37.9	I truly didn't mean the body.
0:39.9	Oh, no.
0:42.1	Let's talk about the draft.
0:44.6	All right.
0:45.6	We have the number one pick in the draft.
0:48.2	The Bears have number 25.
0:50.8	And there's a lot of different directions that they could go.
0:54.1	What? Maybe even with a surprise offensive pick at that spot, speaks. Nah, don't do it. Don't do it. I kind of want the bears to get wacky. Well, they might. We've talked about the draft so much, and I'm just like, you know what? If they get wacky and Ben's like, you know, there's a guy that can help us right damn now on offense at a skill position, fine. Do it. Well, we'll see. I don't love that, but it certainly might be possible. It's a fascinating moment to think about what they're going to do. My favorite of the mock drafts that's going to be dead wrong, because they're all going to be dead wrong. My favorite of the mocks came out, and that's the athletics beat writer mock draft that they do.
1:32.2	We're a different beat writer.
1:33.3	I enjoy that one.
1:34.7	And all the way down there at 25, Kevin Fishbane, Fisci Business, looked at what was gone already from all the other beatwriters and has them taken a key messador
1:46.0	the edge out of miami that's what fishy business has them doing cbsports dot com mocked the whole
1:53.4	seven rounds here's what they came up with for your chicago bears okayJ. Parker. That's a 25.
2:01.6	Jeremy Bernard.
2:02.9	And let me tell you, of all the Alabama players, he's the one I like the most.
2:08.9	I'm just saying that.
2:09.6	High tide!
2:10.6	High tide indeed.
2:11.8	At 57?
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