Here’s the full 2024 draft class from the Bears.

The Chicago Bears have finalized their 2024 NFL Draft class, and the franchise is ready for a new era.

Round 1: No. 1 overall (via Carolina) - Caleb Williams, QB, USC

Round 1: No. 9 - Rome Odunze, WR, Washington

Round 3: No. 75 - Kiran Amegadjie, OT, Yale

Round 4: No. 122 (via Philadelphia) - Tory Taylor, P, Iowa

Round 5: No. 144 (via Buffalo) - Austin Booker, DE, Kansas

The Bears traded a 2025 fourth-round pick to the Bills for the fifth-rounder they used to select Booker. That fifth...

WCG’s lead draft analyst breaks down the Bears’ newest edge rusher.

With the No. 144 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears have selected Kansas edge rusher Austin Booker.

The Bears traded up into Round 5 to acquire Booker, giving up a 2025 fourth-round pick to get back the fifth-round pick they traded to the Bills for offensive lineman Ryan Bates. Booker broke out in 2023, tallying 8.0 sacks and 12.0 tackles for a loss and being named a first-team All-Big 12 player.

A backup at Minnesota in 2021 and 2022, Booker transferred to Kansas and made...

The Bears have addressed EDGE!

After trading a 2025 fourth-round pick to the Buffalo Bills for the 144th overall selection (fifth round), the Chicago Bears have selected Austin Booker, defensive end from Kansas.

Booker, a redshirt sophomore, is an inexperienced prospect, but some scouts compare his style to Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby. He has good length (6’ 4 1/2’’, 33 7/8’’ arms), but he’ll need to add some to his 240-pound frame. He has a nice array of pass rush moves and is an explosive athlete.

From NFL.com’s scouting report, where they grade him to be eventually a “plus...

Just when we thought they were done, they come back in.

The Chicago Bears and Ryan Poles decided they wouldn’t rest on their laurels and sit on their hands for the rest of the draft.

After making the final pick of what they held coming into the weekend, the Bears traded back into the fifth round with the Buffalo Bills and grabbed Austin Booker from Kansas.

Booker had some late-second, third-round buzz coming into the weekend NFL Network (and others) say, so grabbing him in the fifth feels like a nice get for Chicago.

Booker was a popular name on...

Ryan Poles paid the going rate in order to pick up a defender this year when the opportunity presented itself.

Ryan Poles has made a trade. He traded the Chicago Bears’ 2025 4th-round pick (probably worth around 31 points in Jimmy Johnson value) for pick #144 in this draft (34 points), making the deal with the Buffalo Bills. That basically means that he bought a current pick with a future pick at a one-round discount, paying almost exactly the conventional rate. Of interest might be that this pick was originally Chicago’s pick but that it had been traded to Buffalo...

All the Bears draft moves tracked here!

This will be a night that Chicago Bears fans all look back on, but will it be with fondness or regret? For the first time since the 1940s, the Bears will make the first pick in the NFL Draft.

Everything that general manager Ryan Poles has done during his two-plus years on the job has led to this night. His vision for the franchise will now be in the hands of a quarterback he believes can lead this team to the top of the NFC North and beyond.

If you think the division...

WCG’s lead draft analyst takes a look at the Bears’ new Aussie punter.

With the No. 122 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears have selected Iowa punter Tory Taylor.

Taylor is the highest-second punter the Bears have had since Todd Sauerbrun went in Round 2 in 1995, as well as the second-highest punter selected in the NFL Draft in the last decade. He won the Ray Guy Award as the best punter in college football in 2023, earning a unanimous All-American nomination in the process, too.

A three-time All-Big Ten player, Taylor holds the FBS record...

A punter?! But he was the MVP of the Iowa Hawkeyes.

The Chicago Bears used the final draft pick that they had coming into the 2024 Draft to select Iowa punter Tory Taylor.

Unless Ryan Poles makes some trades, this will likely put a cap in the Bears’ draft.

Punter became a big need after Trenton Gill slumped after last year.

But a punter from Iowa is a weapon, because Iowa punted a lot. And I mean a lot.

Let’s see how Twitter reacted to the pick.

Not everyone was as excited though...

But let’s get back to those who...

The Chicago Bears selected Iowa punter Tory Taylor, the first special teamer of this draft, in the fourth round (pick 122) of the 2024 NFL Draft.

We’ll record an immediate reaction podcast about the selection, so check out right here as soon as it publishes from our 2nd City Gridiron channels.

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Day 2 of the 2024 NFL Draft is in the books! With one day remaining before the start of undrafted free agency, we’ll look back on the busy night on what was good and bad.

For as few trades as we saw on Night 1 of the 2024 NFL Draft, we were given a show early on Night 2. In total, there were eight trades in the first 17 selections. It was an active night for multiple teams, including the Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles. With different team boards starting to cloud due to the perception of the draft (after...

Bears take an offensive lineman on day 2, leaving one draft pick for Saturday.

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**THE DAILY SPONGIE...

WCG’s lead draft analyst looks at the best prospects still on the board in Day 3.

The first two days of the 2024 NFL Draft are in the books, leaving us with just one more day of selections.

Rounds 1, 2, and 3 brought about many entertaining moments, and now, it’s time for Rounds 4 through 7 to close out an unpredictable weekend. Saturday’s picks will be where some future stars and diamonds in the rough will be found. In the last three years alone, Pro Bowlers like Puka Nacua, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Tariq Woolen, Kyren Williams, Jake Ferguson, DaRon...