Cheap Bears Trade Down
The Bears lived up to their miserly ways by trading away their first round pick to the Buffalo Bills for a second and third rounder, numbers 42 and 73 overall. What a bunch of cheap bastards. Apparently, they don't want to pay first round money. It remains to be seen who they will acquire, but there was a lot of talent on that board that they have bypassed. My mock selection of Santonio Holmes was taken by Pittsburgh with the 25th pick, and it was really looking like he might fall to the Bears in real life. (Everybody thought he'd be long gone by the 26th pick, and well, I guess everybody was right -- but it was close.) Who WAS available for the Bears to take at 26? Well, Jimmy Williams from Virginia Tech for one. Demeco Ryans from Alabama for another. They could have had any TE they wanted, too, as only Vernon Davis was off the board.
Oh well, let's see who they take in three or four hours, when their first selection in the draft rolls around. Till then....