There are highly rated Ts available later.
But I'm not seeing that except from you or someone cherry picking to justify talent for defense, bodies for offense AGAIN. And you failed to answer what all those top picks going to defense in Mack and Smith got us. We literally have nothing to show for it, well except the #1 pick and the trade that brought.
You can't can't see past your own blinders that every year it ends up being the year to get defense
I'm seeing that we can get a top LT with #9. If not there we don't get get a top LT. We get an also ran that may or may not work out. What I'm hearing is you telling me because he may be better than the absolute crap we've had at OT since forever he'll be great. It's kind of the same thing people are selling Braxton on, hey he's better than Leno so he must be OK.
Whenever Anderson has fallen in a sim I've taken him. I'm not stupid like you want to believe. He's not a problem. Carter is. Maybe Bears can turn him around and keep him out of prison or maybe they can't. It's an awful big risk on someone who's already dipping his toes in that prison pool.
This year it depends on how many QBs. Top 5 with 3 QBs doesn't leave much room. Before us it will probably be close with a 1 player edge going to defense because there are also a lot of GMs that you think you're smarter than too.
Bijan and Skoronski, Anderson, Carter and Murphy should go before us. The last one is a toss up between D (DE, CB), O (OT, WR) or QB.
It's why if this year is the SOS for the Bears I'm going to go find one of those teams that gives a crap about having an offense rather than clinging to a history from the 1940s assuming I pay any attention to the NFL outside of Super Bowl parties. It's not as one sided for D like you want to claim. And the teams that put more value on offense win more. I'm sick of rooting for a team that's worse than the Browns. You must enjoy it since you can't identify the glaring problem.