The Case to Trade Pick 25

GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN - APRIL 24: A general view of a Trade Alert on screen during the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft on April 24, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Photo by Perry Knotts/Getty Images) | Getty Images As we do every year, we take a look at the Bears’ first-round pick and the different positions the team needs, and what would make sense for the team to do. As a reminder, I will go through multiple positional cases for the 25th pick, making the case does not necessarily mean I believe this is what the Bears should do, simply laying out the reasons as to why this pick makes sense.

We have already looked at Cornerback and Safety, but let’s look at strategy this time and not a position group. The Bears should trade this pick, and here’s why. We have heard the term “flavors” draft quite a bit this year.

To me, a flavors draft is code for a bad draft. You hear a lot about how, after about 15 to 20 picks, in a lot of ways, the top-end talent dries out a bit, and that it will become a flavors draft and that any number of players could go in any kind of order after that. Now, when I say it’s a bad draft, of course, I don’t mean that there won’t be any high-quality players drafted outside the top 20; of course, there will be, but they will be a little tougher to find with a higher degree of varying outcomes.

Now the draft geeks will tell you that calling it a bad draft is unfair because of the reasons I laid out above, but the 2027 draft is considered a great draft where there could be more than 32 players with first-round grades. That’s a great draft, and you feel great drafting in the back end of round 1 in a draft like that. This draft that just simply isn’t the case.