Bears feel good about “just being flexible” with ninth overall pick

Bears General Manager Ryan Poles knows what the team will do with the first overall pick on Thursday night, but he is n’t going to share the information until the Bears are actually on the calendar.

When the Bears make that find, Poles will be going straight back to work. The Bears also have the seventh overall pick in this year’s review and Poles won’t be able to sit on a selection with that choice until he sees what other teams do between Chicago’s two picks.

Last month Poles said the team’s staff workers had separated into groups to issue taking an offensive tackle, a wide receiver or an edge rusher. On Tuesday, he said that work solidifid his conviction that “those premiums positions are important ” to building championship-caliber teams and that he’s comfortable letting things play out because of how those opportunities match up with the entire draft board.

“The nice thing is from the work that we’ve done I feel pretty good about just being flexible, ” Poles said, via NBCSports Chicago. com.

Quarterback Caleb Williams is expected to be the first overall pick and any direction the Bears go at No. 9 will give Chicago a double jolt of optimism about what’s to come for the team.