Dan Wiederer: It'll be hard for Bears to mess up 10th overall pick in NFL Draft

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00:00There are some things associated with the NFL draft that are always just sort of mind-numbing in how much we overanalyze them.

00:08This concept of it's got to be one or the other, best player available, or you're drafting for a position of need,

00:15typically relies on the idea that your draft board is correct.

00:20And it's one of the craziest things in all of sports is that, oh, the board told us to do this.

00:24When we have historical proof every single year that the board is always wrong, right?

00:28No one has ever had a correct board.

00:31And so for me, it's always, listen, you put your guys in tiers.

00:36I've never liked ranking players 12, 13, 14.

00:39No, it's tier one, tier two, tier three.

00:41And when you get in those various tiers, you're trying to find guys that fit what you need on your football team.

00:48And so if you've got a tier that's got an offensive lineman here and an edge rusher here, you say, which one do we need more?

00:53Because we think that these guys on the same tier are very similarly graded.

00:57Let's go with the one that's going to help us more immediately.

01:01As for the trust factor, I don't know what to do.

01:04Ryan Poles' draft classes over the first three years as general manager have been less than inspiring.

01:08We've never seen Ben Johnson have this big of a role inside of a draft.

01:12I don't know if I should trust them to get this right.

01:15What I do know is that at number 10, the menu is so plentiful that it's going to be really difficult for them to get that wrong.

01:22But as we've talked about previously for the last month, this is about 10.

01:26It's about 39, 41, 72.

01:28Yes.

01:28And having those first four picks amount to something.