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Daniel Jeremiah held his annual conference call about the NFL Combine, during which he shared nuggets about several prospects, including some that make sense for the Chicago Bears.
Yesterday, the NFL Network's Lead Draft Analyst Analyst, Daniel Jeremiah, held his annual Conference Call with the media about the NFL Combine and the 2025 NFL Draft. He talked about several prospects, some options teams have, and he fielded a few questions specifically about the Chicago Bears.
I’ll spotlight some of his general thoughts of a few of the players that have been mocked to the Bears recently but also his Bears takes.
He was asked about the Georgia prospects — as usual, there are a bunch — and considering a mock draft recently had the Bears taking one of them, here’s what he had to say about defensive end Mykel Williams.
DANIEL JEREMIAH: I just wish we could have seen him healthy. If he doesn’t get hurt in that Clemson game and we see him at full strength, I think we’re talking about him as another top 10 lock who has a lot of freaky qualities to him, freaky traits to him. He can really get off the ball. He’s got a lot of power and violence as a rusher. He can set the edge. It’s just a perfection. Hasn’t been great, but that’s because the guy wasn’t healthy all year long, and they still roll guys through there.
Michigan defensive tackle Mason Graham has been mocked to the Bears at 10, and here’s his take on Graham.
DJ: He’s so fun. I watched him on tape and I fell in love with him, and then I got a chance to go to their game against Oregon. A bunch of personnel guys and GMs down on the field. We’re walking down there, and I see Mason Graham walk by. Of course, he is next to Kenneth Grant, his teammate, who it looks like he’s a cartoon character. He’s an Adonis how big he is.
I’m looking at Mason Graham and body type, and I’m, like, gosh, maybe I need to adjust my grade. Maybe I’m just too high on this guy. Then I proceeded to watch the game, and I was, like, nope, nope, he’s just really, really good. So I hope people don’t overthink it with him as we get to the spring and kind of the further we get away from football, but he’s got crazy, elite leverage, balance, and instincts.
You can see there’s a wrestling background there. He’s just never on the ground. He gets underneath guys. I just wrote down when I was looking at my notes, I had “block destruction” written down so many different times. He’s just a real aggressive player who has got instincts and can dominate the game against the run, and I think has more to offer as a pass rusher.
Jeremiah was asked a Bears-specific question regarding the offensive line, and as an FYI,...
