2010 NFL Draft

First football post.  Yay.

Anyway, I'm a Chicago Bears fan... Morale is low this off-season after another monumentally disappointing season.  The situation is kind of made worse by the fact that the Bears did not have a first or second-round pick this year.  The first rounder was sent off in return for Jay Cutler, the second rounder sent for Gaines Adams (who tragically died of a heart ailment)-- a very puzzling trade that never seemed likely to yield much return.  So, with virtually no interest in the draft this year, I didn't watch.  They also dramatically changed the format of the draft, with it falling on Thursday (round 1), Friday (rounds 2-3), and Saturday (rounds 4-7) which ruined the old first day draft party/garage sale crawl that I used to do with my brother.

The Bears went into the draft with glaring needs on o-line and in the secondary.  They took all-name-team candidate safety Major Wright out of Florida.  Sounds like he's a very heavy hitter and a big-time intangibles guy.  We'll have to see.  I'd imagine he could come out of the gate starting as the Bears have almost nothing at all on the roster as far as safety goes.

In the fourth they took DE Corey Wootton from Northwestern.  This guy is large for an end.  The Bears usually draft little guys so this leads to some speculation that he's going to be asked to move inside to tackle.  I kind of hope not, because this player was once a top pick sort of talent who blew up an ACL in a bowl game in his junior season.  It would be nice if the Bears lucked out and picked up a guy just hitting his stride in recovering from ACL surgery.  Worst case is that they overreached on a guy who's never going to recover the spark he once had or be injury prone.

On the third day they took CB Joshua Moore of K-State, QB Dan LeFevour from Central Michigan, and OT J'Marcus Webb out of West Texas A&M, in the fifth, sixth, and seventh rounds respectively.  The presence of a QB pick indicates the Bears were drafting for value instead of need, which is find by me.  If any of these players make an impact in the 2010-2011 season it's a bonus.

In other news, OG star Alan Faneca was released by the New York Jets.  GET HIM!  GET HIM NOW!