2011 NFL Draft: Most Important Draft in Chicago Bears History

April 26, 2011   ·   Mark Skiba   ·   Jump to comments

Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, and the last time the Chicago Bears made a pick in the first or second round the NFL draft still started on Saturday.
That may seem like a blessing to some fans considering the Bears history with early picks but the future of this franchise in the short and long term will go as this draft does.
Without early picks the last two years due to trades,leaving the Bears in desperate need of striking gold early on. Quarterbacks never look good running around the field in circles like a player on the old electronic football board game, that subject is for a different day though.
To understand why this draft is so important we need to understand the past, no draft sticks out more than the 2007 draft. Losing the Super Bowl to the Indianapolis Colts was hard that February, two months later the Bears dropped the ball worse than Rex Grossman under center.
Why was it so bad? First-round pick Greg Olsen still has the jury out on him, he ha...

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