POD Community Mock Draft: With the 1st pick, the Bears select…

Our Pleasure of Detroit 2024 NFL group mock draft is underway! If you happen to’ve by no means been part of it earlier than, we’ve chosen 31 members of our group to behave as an NFL common supervisor, whereas our personal Erik Schlitt will function the Detroit Lions common supervisor.

From now till we get to the tip of Spherical 1, we’ll be revealing the picks—two per day—and highlighting why our group members made the choices that they did.

First up, as everyone knows, are the Chicago Bears. After they traded away Justin Fields earlier this offseason, it actually took a lot of the shock out of the No. 1 general decide. However is there an opportunity they choose somebody apart from the consensus prime quarterback within the draft?

To make that call and kick off our mock draft, group member kevster is the appearing common supervisor of the Bears.

And with the primary general decide within the 2024 POD Neighborhood Mock Draft, the Bears have chosen….

USC quarterback Caleb Williams.

Right here’s kevster explaining the decide:

“The Chicago Bears made this decide pretty simple for me once they traded Justin Fields to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a bag of peanuts. Sadly for the remainder of the NFC North, the Bears will now be led by the most effective quarterback prospect since Peyton Manning. That’s not my opinion by the way in which, however the opinion of many NFL common managers and scouts, together with 12 who have been polled by ESPN in October of 2023. Joe Burrow was known as a “recreation supervisor” in comparison with the brand new QB for the Chicago Bears. That’s some fairly excessive reward.

“Williams has been described by scouts as a “generational expertise” with the arm power of Patrick Mahomes mixed with the scrambling capacity of Josh Allen. Lions coach Dan Campbell not too long ago commented that he was pleased when Justin Fields was traded out of the division. I hardly ever disagree with MCDC however I feel for our sake we’d a lot slightly the Bears proceed with Fields than have the ability to come at us with Caleb Williams. We are able to completely blame the Carolina Panthers for being horrible sufficient to present the Bears one other #1 decide.

“The most effective hope for the remainder of the division is for the claims of Williams being a “diva” to grow to be true. Famend media flip-flopper Colin Cowherd reported that Williams would possibly pull an Eli Manning and refuse to play for the Bears [Editor’s Note: Williams denied this in an interview with ESPN]. RGIII went on the air and mentioned that he agreed and instructed Williams to carry out and demand a commerce if the Bears take him number one. Nothing would make me happier than to see this play out however because the pretend GM of the Bears I don’t see this taking place. Caleb Williams will play for the Bears and from the second he steps on the sphere he would be the finest QB in Chicago since Kristin Cavallari’s ex-husband.”