Did Daniel Jeremiah offer a best-case trade scenario for Bears at No. 1 overall?

NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah held a conference call with the media this week, and he offered a 2023 NFL Draft trade scenario for the Chicago Bears that might be the best-proposed swap of picks for GM Ryan Poles and the future of the Bears organization.

In Jeremiah’s hypothetical trade, the Bears trade down to the No. 9 overall with the Carolina Panthers and receive multiple first-rounders in future drafts.

“If you want to go all the way to 9, you are going to get the ninth pick, you are going to get the 39th pick, and get a first round in ’24 and a first round in ’25,” Jeremiah said.

Even though the Chicago Bears would be trading out of striking distance for Will Anderson Jr. and Jalen Carter, this deal feels like a best-case scenario for a Bears roster that needs more than one blue-chip defender to compete in the NFC North.

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Chicago Bears could trade back and land top offensive linemen in 2023 NFL Draft

The 2023 NFL Draft class has been widely viewed as a good-but-not-great crop of prospects. The Chicago Bears will benefit from a perfect storm of having the No. 1 pick in a draft with quarterbacks worthy of the selection and quarterback-needy teams willing to trade up, and while missing out on Anderson and Carter will sting if the Bears trade back to the No. 9 pick, they’ll have their choice of the top offensive linemen available.

Northwestern’s Peter Skoronski, Ohio State’s Paris Johnson Jr., and Georgia’s Broderick Jones are considered the top offensive tackles in the class, but none of them are expected to come off the board until late in the top 10. If Chicago slides down to nine, you can pencil in one of them as a starter in Chicago in 2023.

That would be a fantastic result for Poles and the Bears’ offense. Justin Fields needs an upgrade in pass protection, and getting that with a rookie first-rounder while adding future valuable assets in the 2024 and 2025 drafts is a boon.

The 2023 NFL Combine kicks off this week, and it’s an event that usually jumpstart trade talks and speculation. I’d expect some rumors to begin leaking from Indianapolis as Ryan Poles meets with other general managers in an effort to facilitate a first-round trade.

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