No Center? Available Options or is Cody really the plan?

[Starion]

Do they like Deiter, Leatherwood, & Cody as their best options?

What's wrong with Whypler? 6.20 NFL grade looks tasty enough for their last 5th Rd. pick or trade up, but no?
Still on board in 6th as of this post.


I could see the advantage of having a Vet at Center this season who knows what he's doing, IF there's one available. Is there a vet C out there likely to be cut post-draft or post-June 1st?

Cody can't be plan A can he? IDK

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Cody and Lucas will battle it out in camp.

 

[Aesopian]

My guess is Justin Fields didn't give his old teammate a good recommendation.

 

[Aesopian]

Doug Kramer may be special

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

Doug Kramer may be special

Honestly he seems too small.

 

[Brybeck01]

Honestly he seems too small.

I wish Kramer could long snap. Save us a roster spot.

Gotta be Patrick v Whitehair in camp now that Wypler is gone

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

My guess is Justin Fields didn't give his old teammate a good recommendation.

No one has picked him yet right? Just think he doesn’t have the athletic profile teams want

 

[zabavka]

Wypler to CLE

 

[The Galloping Ghost]

Cody and Lucas will battle it out in camp.

Yeah, Patrick was brought here to play center, but then broke his thumb. He's a mediocre Guard but a decent enough center. I'm fine with either he or Whiterhair for this season.

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Yeah, Patrick was brought here to play center, but then broke his thumb. He's a mediocre Guard but a decent enough center. I'm fine with either he or Whiterhair for this season.

Don’t get me wrong…. I’d have loved a center. But I’m not terribly worried either

 

[Starion]

Hope so. I know last year was an embarrassment of futility at Center, although they did bring in Patrick & barely got to use him. I was looking FW to his experience running things at the time. Perhaps I undervalued him given his extreme lack of use at Center last season. Hope he or Cody can handle it.

Original question remains about any potential (improvement) FA cuts coming at Center?

 

[Chicago4Life]

Do they like Deiter, Leatherwood, & Cody as their best options?

What's wrong with Whypler? 6.20 NFL grade looks tasty enough for their last 5th Rd. pick or trade up, but no?
Still on board in 6th as of this post.


I could see the advantage of having a Vet at Center this season who knows what he's doing, IF there's one available. Is there a vet C out there likely to be cut post-draft or post-June 1st?

Cody can't be plan A can he? IDK

wypler has short arms and gets bull rushed easy...sounds like mustipher and we all know how that was for the bears...patrick/whitehair/eislen/kramer should all be in the mix at center

 

[Hawkeye OG]

Don’t get me wrong…. I’d have loved a center. But I’m not terribly worried either

Assuming Davis and Jenkins can hold the pocket it should be fine. I would have preferred to draft a C round3 over one of the DTs tho

 

[GoBears]

I think we're going deep into the rulebook and having Fields hike the ball to himself.

 

[BearClaw55]

Poles still has to spend a bunch of that cap money. Hopefully he is waiting to sign some post June 1, cap casualties to man the center position.

 

[baselman1974]

Either one is better than Mustipher. Also bears improved the guard spot. So next year the Bears will draft a center and cut whitehair.

 

[jooo83]

I hope this team is not counting on Lucas Patrick for anything. Whatever he gives the team next year should be considred a bonus.

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

I hope this team is not counting on Lucas Patrick for anything. Whatever he gives the team next year should be considred a bonus.

I don’t think fans ever saw the real Lucas Patrick due to injuries.

 

[Myk]

I'm really scared if Poles means what he said about Whitehair and that wasn't a pre-draft cloak, which it must not have been.

Thing about waiting until next year to draft C is you're not cutting/sitting Whitehair you're running out his contract with him as your starting C. He's a fine backup plan but rating him as your guy is worrisome.

I'm not worried that Wypler wasn't taken when there was a chance, I assume there's something wrong with him. A little worried that a CB was taken instead of a center after the first run started or dline. I don't mind the thought of a bunch of great DBs but there is a blindness to the needs to do it. A huge blindness if he thinks Whitehair is the answer, even if he was good he's getting old.

After seeing the difference of Kreutz and not-Kreutz a good C should be all the oline needs unless someone busts.

 

[Mdbearz]

Hope so. I know last year was an embarrassment of futility at Center, although they did bring in Patrick & barely got to use him. I was looking FW to his experience running things at the time. Perhaps I undervalued him given his extreme lack of use at Center last season. Hope he or Cody can handle it.

Original question remains about any potential (improvement) FA cuts coming at Center?

Apparently, there was no Center in the Draft worth taking....and relying on Patrick and Whitehair seems like a foolish way to approach the off season.

We have seen post draft cuts that can be legit starters elsewhere, so there is always hope, but this is really disappointing that a viable Center like Wypler went to the 6th round and the Bears decide that a LB (likely STs) was more important.