The fact that a running back is being considered in the top 5 is compounded by how he ran all over a poor conference full of guys who won't be playing in the NFL. What's more is that he's not particularly big and not particularly explosive either. What's more than that is when you look at all the top 10 RB draft picks in the last 10 years, none have really translated to team success for the team that drafted the guy.
Trading up for that could end easily be a big disaster, especially when you're a team that's struggled to build the trenches. For as much work as we did there, all you need is another Billings injury and one to Thuney or Dalman and you're in a bad way yet again. For christ's sake, #trenches
Your 3rd point is where you lost me.
To me, if you're a positional value picker your opinion only matters when it's a position you value. For any other position you will always try to find a reason to say no.
I've watched the Bears make up for not having offense (QBs, WRs, and oline) by having a good RB often. What other teams have done with the position doesn't matter. Plus if we have fixed the oline, we have WRs, we have a QB so if a RB falls to us it makes sense that our situation is not the same as other teams who weren't ready.
And the real kicker is I agree about not trading up and focusing on the trenches. Even when I took Jeanty at 10 that was the last I saw anyone for oline that didn't require a lot of scrolling (reaches). He had better be exceptional at running, receiving and blocking if getting him means no real oline options.
