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Chicago Bears Draft 4th Round Running Back: Meet Jordan Howard

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The Indiana Hoosiers are obviously a basketball school, not football. However, IU does have a very explosive offense and they're quite apt at producing NFL talent at the offensive skill positions, especially at running back. The Chicago Bears selected Indiana running back Jordan Howard in the fifth round (150th overall pick) of the 2016 NFL Draft on Saturday afternoon at the … [Read more...] about Chicago Bears Draft 4th Round Running Back: Meet Jordan Howard

Illini Football Coach Lovie Smith Praised by NFL Network Pundits

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As Illinois Fighting Illini Football Coach Lovie Smith sells the program to recruits, his NFL pedigree will be a persistent theme. (We covered this in depth for RedEye on Thursday) Smith has been out of the college game for 21 years, but he takes over a program that had a really good reputation as a NFL vocational development school up until the last couple of years. Illini … [Read more...] about Illini Football Coach Lovie Smith Praised by NFL Network Pundits

Curtis Conway Nailed the Bears Leonard Floyd Pick on Wednesday

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NFL Network Analyst Curtis Conway will be the first to tell you that he's not a big mock draft guy. He made one and just one this year. He makes them for the NFL.com website for fun, not for the achievement of being the most accurate. However, he totally nailed the Chicago Bears selection of Georgia Linebacker Leonard Floyd the day before the draft. … [Read more...] about Curtis Conway Nailed the Bears Leonard Floyd Pick on Wednesday

2016 NFL Mock Draft 4-28-16 FINAL

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Happy Draft Day!!!! This will be our penultimate 2016 NFL mock draft update, with the final version coming late this afternoon.  To get you ready for the draft, here's a list of 40 NFL Draft buzzwords, catch-phrases and cliches that you'll hear tonight, and all weekend, from the TV network draftniks. "He can make all throws when you put him in space a hand in the round guy … [Read more...] about 2016 NFL Mock Draft 4-28-16 FINAL

Experts Opine on What the Chicago Bears Will Do at #11

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Happy Draft Day everyone! It's the Christmas of the offseason for NFL fans everywhere. We've done our Chicago Bears NFL Draft mocksourcing already which you can check out here. Almost everybody has published their final NFL mock draft by this point and and you can check our offering here. Bear in mind (pun intended) that we had a more accurate mock draft, with more picks … [Read more...] about Experts Opine on What the Chicago Bears Will Do at #11

Chicago Bears 2016 NFL Draft Mocksourcing

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Chicago Bears fans, Be sure to check out the Walter Football 2016 NFL Mock draft database, now with 262 mocks included. It's the biggest and best mock database on the whole world wide web. With their help we did some "Mocksourcing." you know like "Crowdsourcing" or "Twittersourcing." Complementing our own mock, we choose a few select mocks that we know have a great track … [Read more...] about Chicago Bears 2016 NFL Draft Mocksourcing

Lovie Smith Expects Former Bears Players to Visit in Champaign

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When May arrives, football season temporarily goes back down the sports pecking order until late July when football talking season starts up again with authority. In the meantime, we have quasi-news items, or pseudo news items like this one below regarding Lovie Smith and Brian Urlacher. Don't you love April's sort-of kind-of football season? Between the NFL Draft and spring … [Read more...] about Lovie Smith Expects Former Bears Players to Visit in Champaign

Chicago Bears Options in Drafting a Late Round Quarterback

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Many Chicago Bears fans really want to see the team draft a new quarterback to replace Jay Cutler next month. Many Chicago Bears fans really don't know what they're talking about. Yes, Cutler still makes plenty of mistakes, and when he does make them, he makes them big. However, he's still way better than half the QB1s in this league and he's just coming off his most efficient … [Read more...] about Chicago Bears Options in Drafting a Late Round Quarterback

NFL Free Agency Winners: Bears, Lions, Chargers, Texans

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2016 NFL free agency has been going strong now for close to two weeks, meaning a lot of teams have filled some of their needs. Obviously, there are some losers too in this free agent market but we'll save that discussion for another time. This is a list of the winners. There are still plenty of NFL free agency moves to come and we'll be keeping tabs on that and updating. We've … [Read more...] about NFL Free Agency Winners: Bears, Lions, Chargers, Texans