Some of the numbers get skewed too due the various trades. In that timeframe, the Bears have traded away 5 1st round picks for Cutler, Mack, and Fields.
So, in the last 15 drafts:
1A) Five 1st round picks were gone in trades for 3 players - Fields in the only player still on the team from those trades.
1B) Four picks were in the top 10 (all by Pace and all in a row). Of those 4, only Roquan is still on the team.
1C) There were five additional picks in the top 20 (ie 11-20). Fields is again the only player still on the team from that group. And even if you wanted to look at the trade for Mack accounting in there - he is now gone too.
1D) And so, in the last 15 drafts, the Bears only had 1 pick in the bottom third of the round and that was Gabe Carimi in 2011.
It doesn't get a whole lot better when you add in the 2nd round, but there is more there:
2A) Cody Whitehair is the only 2nd rounder still on the team from before the 2020 draft either due to trades or players not working out
2B) There are five 2nd round players on the team from 2020-2022 drafts (JJ, Kmet, Jenkins, Gordon, Brisker), so 3 DB's, a TE, and an OT.
3rd Round:
They have exactly two players projected to be on the 2022 team that they drafted in the 3rd round in the last 15 drafts: Velus Jones and David Montgomery. Funny enough, they are also the only two 3rd round selections made since 2017. This is one area where Pace really screwed the team. He traded away so many 3rd round picks.
So, to summarize for the projected 2022 roster for their own draft picks:
1st round picks: 2
2nd round picks: 6
3rd round picks: 2
Cody Whitehair is the only one of that group on a 2nd contract. All the rest are still on rookie contracts with Roquan and Montgomery being FA after 2022. And no one would be surprised if Whitehair is also gone after 2022.
Pretty easy to see why they have talent deficiencies and little depth when you have so few of your own Day 1-3 picks on the roster.
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