With four picks in the top 75 selections of the 2025 NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears have a window to build on the solid haul of rookies they picked up last season.

That is the view of NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah, who watched the Bears follow up the first overall selection of QB Caleb Williams by sticking and picking to take WR Rome Odunze ninth overall. With only five picks in the entire draft, Chicago went to take OT Kiran Amegadjie at 75, with 2023 Ray Guy Award winner, punter Tory Taylor and DE Austin Booker being added in rounds four and five respectively.

The extra top 75 spot this year, pick #39 courtesy of a previous trade with Carolina, comes just two positions before the Bears’ own selection, and gives GM Ryan Poles and new head coach Ben Johnson a number of options when the draft gets underway on enemy soil in Green Bay this Thursday.

“They are in a fantastic position,” Jeremiah said of the Bears during his annual pre-draft press briefing. “When you’re picking at 10, 39, 41 and 72, that’s four instant-impact players with the way this draft shakes out. I’m excited for them — we did a thing the other day on teams that have the most opportunity in this draft, and they would be near the top of the list.”

Although holding seven picks across draft weekend might allow the Bears to consider trading position, possibly even back into the bottom of the opening round if there was a particular target still on the board, Jeremiah believes that holding their assets, and using the majority on offensive players, would be the logical move for a team with a former OC as head coach and a quarterback moving into his second season under center.

“If it’s close with some of the other players, I could see them checking a tackle off the list,” he explained. “In terms of positions that you probably don’t want to wait on, if you are dead set on getting an offensive tackle and you want to get your long-term left tackle, you’re going to want to do that with your first pick, because I just don’t love the possibility of you seeing someone that’s going to be an upgrade over what you already have once you get into the second round of this particular draft. Yes, there are backs [and] there are tight ends, but there’s a good bit of depth there, so that would be kind of the thought process there.”

Although Jeremiah admitted that, should the Bears want to reinforce their defensive line, getting an edge rusher with pick 39 would be ‘a great area to find that guy’, he remains convinced that the team has the potential to land some of the bigger offensive talents and supercharge that side of the ball in 2025.

“I think they can premier shop,” he continued. “If you want to take one of the top two tight ends [at #10], I think they’re more than worth going up there. If Ashton Jeanty falls in your lap, run the card up there. They’re in a great spot where they don’t have to be aggressive with the first pick. Somebody is going to go to them there that they’re going to love and is going to start for them day one and be an impact player.

“I’m almost more excited to see what happens with their next picks because that’s going to be a fun combination of players they put together. On these teams with young quarterbacks, we can look at the defensive side of the ball and find holes, but, at the end of next year, if Caleb Williams has taken a massive leap with Ben Johnson, I think Bears fans will be feeling pretty darn good about the direction.”