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Who are the 5 worst Bears draft picks under Ryan Poles?

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Mike Mulligan and David Haugh discussed the worst draft picks of Bears general manager Ryan Poles' tenure in Chicago.

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Who are the 5 worst Bears draft picks under Ryan Poles?

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Mully & Haugh ShowWho are the 5 worst Bears draft picks under Ryan Poles?. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

set at this extra point. It's time for the extra point with Molleen Ha on 1043 the score. We had fun yesterday ranking the top five draft picks in the Ryan Polzer. So let's try to name the five worst. Will you concentrate on the Dan Wheeler position picks or simply read off names from the third round? Are we going into sending order five to one or one to five? Let's go five to one. Five to one. All right. I'll start with number five. The fifth worst pick in the Ryan Polzer era. Roma Dune Zay. When he came in with Caleb Williams, high expectations when he draft ninth overall. Wow. You come with that kind of pedigree, nego those kind of expectations. You expect more in the first two seasons and 98 catches for 1395 yards and nine touchdowns. To me, if you're the ninth overall pick, you're capable of getting that in year one or year two, not in year one to combine.

I'm sorry. That puts some heat on him, but that's good because they need him to come through. They got rid of DJ Moore. Why? They believe in Roma Dune Zay. Time for him to start producing like a ninth overall pick. That's number five. Number four. Ruben Hippelite still looking for the license plate of the truck that ran him over and knocked him out of the game earlier this year when he got a chance to play linebacker. He's a special team player. This is fun. You don't go out and reach when the fourth round. He's a current NFL player. I know he is. He's a special team player. Do you think he's going to start this year? Do you think he's going to compete for a starting spot this year? Did that stop him from going out to getting a free agent linebacker this year? No, no, and no. He was the fourth round pick of the 2025 draft and he's 130 second overall. For that, you should get more. And I think he's number four. Number three. Zach Pickens. We barely knew you. Zach Pickens, where are you now? You're not in the middle of the Bears defensive line because

they're searching for your replacement. Still third round pick. One of many third round pick, several, I should say not to exaggerate. Several third round picks that have not going right in the Ryan Poles era. He was drafted between Tyrick Stevenson and Rocheon Johnson in that year of 2023 when they had a lot of a lot of questionable picks. That would be Zach Pickens. Number three. Number two, Molly's favorite guy, valus Jones Jr. Did you know in the first draft of Ryan Poles, he was the third round pick and he ended up with his Bears 10 year after 37 games. He had twice as many carries as he did receptions. 24 carries 12 receptions and who could ever forget the way he muffed those punts. valus Jones, number two on my list. And the worst draft pick, Ryan Poles has made. We have to go to the Ivy League with their respect to the local guy made good. The guy that Matt Hebrew Flues ran into on the golf course. Keran Amagaji. Sorry guy. Her employer.

I know he's in the mix, but he's not in the mix. He's in the mix because he plays a position that the Bears keep searching for every place before. Do you really think that when you list him on the death chart, he's got any chance of starting or playing? No, I don't. You know why? He's the worst draft pick of the Ryan Poles era. Let me just say that is like a big brass pick the Roma Dune Zay. You're basically saying he's a failure now. No, for this year where they're really relying on say number five. Okay. Okay. Awesome. Yeah, that one caught me caught me off guard. For sure pun intended guard. The fifth worst pick is Zach Pickens. That was 23 round number three. The fourth pick that was the worst was Keran Amagaji. I did a little research with this one too because I wanted I thought I needed to go higher on this one, but when you go and you really dig

into that that draft and you know like I'm going with picks like right behind him like five picks, six picks, seven. I don't know any of these guys like Blake Corm, you know, 83rd to the to the Rams. I'm just saying there's there's just not a lot of. No, there should be value in the picture taking right. There's just not a lot of names right around there anyway. That's that's that's a Keran Amagaji. Now here's the problem with the next two guys. These were second round picks in 2023. So that's Stevenson and Dexter and it's because they were second round picks. I mean Stevenson has been a contributor obviously, but he also had one of the biggest bone headed plays in recent memory. Time to feel though. These are two current starters, but they're okay, but but I'm just saying and but they were they were bad. If we if we were to dig in to the 23th draft and go into round number two, and then you know, it's it's that was Jones.

I mean, you know, he's number one. So you have Durand Dexter and Tyrick Stevenson on your list? Yeah, they were two and three. They're two. They're among two of the five worst draft. Two of the current starters because and you were thinking I raised it. I brought not only thought you raised an eyebrow. I didn't know. Listen, I love the fact you had some minutes or a day, but I appreciate it. I think what's funny is that we all took current pair. It's okay. There's no way you can get around it. So here are my five worst draft picks in bears history under Ryan Paul's. I will start with a tie at number five. I am going to a combination of fourth round picks. A couple of guys named Rocheanne Johnson and Tyler Scott back to back in 2003. Fourth round picks in 2003. You got to get something out of your fourth round picks. You can't have two guys on offense at skill positions

that you took in a draft that they're they're long gone already at this point. Little Scott as they would call them. Little Scott didn't make it lost to an undrafted free agent and Rocheanne was just a body that was here. I don't know that he ever really played much was a special teamer. My fourth worst pick of the of the era would be Ruben Hippelite. You can go ahead and you can draft a guy if you want that doesn't go to the combine but has good speed that you like but he better not disappear when it's time to be on the field. I know he started the game last year but that's where I went at number four. Number three begins our run of third round picks. The 75th pick a gentleman well educated. Don't get me wrong but Kieran Amagaji you took a guy to be a starter at left tackle and he's not even competing for that position. He's still on the roster. I

would imagine there's no need to cut him. You'll probably do that before you get out of training camp but he is for right now still on the roster and technically could turn it around. Did Ryan pull see something in himself in Amagaji. That's the fear. At the second worst draft pick I've been mentioned before by many Zach Pickens third round pick who we hardly knew him. I don't really have any strong memories of him at all. When you took Javon Dexter back in that was a 2023 pick I believe you then took you traded up and got Stevenson and then you went back to the defensive tackle well and guess what you now took a six-rounder that people think could be the steal of the draft. Pickens played 29 games I can't remember one of them. No didn't make a play and then number one the greatest bad pick in the history of Ryan Poles has got to be the first offensive player

that he took back in 2022 after taking Kyler Gordon and Jaquan Briskler. He came back in the third round and he got a man of advanced age, advanced the Neptune really good fumbler. That of course would be the super bowl champion Vailess Jones Jr. Very spiffy dresser as well. Always dressed for success. Ben Johnson never would have let Ryan Poles make that pick. It alluded him here. Luke Getsy did. Vailess Jones Jr. I love that we have current players. We're just anticipating failure it's unbelievable. That was fun. All right that was a lot of fun. All right we've got a lot to get to 3126446767 it's Mully and Honda score. I have no confidence in Ryan Poles. Why? Failess Jones.

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