The 2025 NFL Draft is 68 days away. As of right now, the Chicago Bears have eight picks — including four in the top 75. How this team goes about using its picks remains to be determined. And while what happens in free agency will go a long way toward determining how the Bears move on NFL Draft Weekend, it is never too early to look at what league insiders, analysts, and pundits are forecasting for Chicago’s football team.

A Chicago Bears 2025 NFL Mock Draft round-up (secondary headline)

Looking at who NFL analysts, pundits, and insiders are sending to the Bears in their post-Super Bowl mock drafts.

FIELD YATES, ESPN — ESPN’s Field Yates has long been one of my favorite NFL writers and personalities. And because he has a long-standing connection with Bears General Manager Ryan Poles from when they crossed paths while working in the Kansas City Chiefs front office, I find myself giving his Bears mock draft selections a closer eye. For instance, Yates has Chicago’s football team using the 10th overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft on Kelvin Banks Jr., the award-winning University of Texas offensive lineman. This is what Yates had to say about the pick:

Banks has very good footwork and balance for a 320-pound player, and I believe his extensive experience (42 starts) will make for a smoother transition to the NFL. He gave up only four pressures on 510 pass-blocking snaps in 2024, one of the lowest pressure percentages allowed by an FBS lineman. A lack of length has some convinced he’d be a better guard than tackle in the NFL, but I see the skill of a starter at left tackle.

The growing consensus surrounding Kelvin Banks Jr. is that he can start immediately, could stick at tackle, or slide inside to guard. Banks’ positional versatility could be valuable to a Bears team that needs to fill two starting guard positions this offseason, and could need to find a new starting left tackle in 2026. Keep that in mind when assessing offensive line picks and prospects from this year’s draft class.

TREVOR SIKKEMA, PRO FOOTBALL FOCUS — While it feels a bit too early to start projecting trades in mock drafts, I’ll never discourage anyone from doing it. With that in mind, I found it interesting that the first post-Super Bowl mock draft from PFF had the Bears using the No. 10 pick as a trade chip to send out to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for star pass rusher Myles Garrett. Sikkema sends the Bears’ first-round picks in 2025 and 2026 to Cleveland. And with that pick, he has the Browns selecting offensive tackle Kelvin Banks Jr. from Texas.

This is what he had to say about the deal:

Browns edge defender Myles Garrett officially requested a trade and was on a bit of a media tour during Super Bowl week to discuss his preferred destinations — namely, Super Bowl contenders. After a disappointing 2024 season, the Bears can go all in by addressing one of their few team needs. As for Cleveland, the team can get a nice haul for a player who clearly wants out, acquiring the 10th pick in this year’s draft. By drafting Hunter at No. 2 and Banks at No. 10, they would secure two very talented players at impactful positions for their upcoming rebuild.

The conversation surrounding a Myles Garrett trade will not go away anytime soon. We’ve already explored what a Garrett trade could look like for the Bears. And for what it’s worth, one NFL analyst believes Chicago’s football team is in a “sweet spot” to cut a deal. We’ll continue monitoring the situation with great interest.

KEVIN FISHBAIN AND ADAM JAHNS, THE ATHLETIC: Let’s run down the dueling mock draft from The Athletic’s tandem of Bears writers:

• ROUND 1: Michigan DT Mason Graham (Fishbain), LSU OT Will Campbell (Jahns)
• ROUND 2, PT.I: Oregon OT Josh Conerly Jr. (Fishbain), Ohio State EDGE Jack Sawyer (Jahns)
• ROUND 2, PT. II: North Dakota State OL Grey Zabel (Fishbain), Arkansas EDGE Landon Jackson (Arkansas)
• ROUND 3: Ohio State RB TreVeyon Henderson (Fishbain), Georgia G Tate Ratledge (Jahns)
• ROUND 5: UCLA EDGE Oluwafemi Oladejo (Fishbain), UCF RB RJ Harvey (Jahns)
• ROUND 6: Oregon DT Jamaree Caldwell (Fishbain), Iowa TE Luke Lachey (Jahns)
• ROUND 7, PT. I: Alabama S Malachi Moore (Fishbain), UNLV Ricky White (Jahns)
• ROUND 7 PT. II: UCLA TE Moliki Matavao (Fishbain), Georgia S Dan Jackson (Jahns)

You’ll likely see us do deeper dives on prospects like Mason Graham, Will Campbell, Josh Conerly, Jack Sawyer, and Grey Zabel after the first round of NFL free agency comes to a close and we have a better idea of what targets the Bears will (and should) have on their NFL Draft radar. But we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. In the meantime, this feels like a good time to point out that you should expect to see a ton of mock drafts in which Chicago is connected to various offensive linemen in the first three rounds because that appears to be the sweet spot to take the nasty dudes in the trenches.

This also seems to be a draft class where a team can get value later in the draft when targeting running backs and tight ends.

Other Bears mock draft picks

• This Dan Parr mock draft has the Bears taking Missouri offensive lineman Armand Membou. Even though he was a tackle in college, there seems to be a belief that Membou could slide inside and immediately start at guard. Membou’s profile reminds me a little bit of what I read about Darnell Wright when he came out of Tennessee. I plan on expanding on that thought in a separate post this week.

• Chad Reuter’s three-round mock draft has the Bears going with LSU offensive tackle Will Campbell (Round 1, Pick 10, Marshall edge rusher Mike Green (Round 2, Pick 39), Ohio State guard Donovan Jackson (Round 2, Pick 41), and Iowa running back Kaleb Johnson (Round 3, Pick 72). Addressing needs on both sides of the line of scrimmage and adding a potential playmaking running back would be the kind of old-school draft that I could get behind.

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• Another three-round mock (this one via The 33rd Team) has the Bears going this way: LSU OT Will Campbell (Round 1, Pick 10), Oregon DT Derrick Harmon (Round 2, Pick 39), Iowa RB Kaleb Johnson (Round 2, Pick 41), Iowa State WR Jayden Higgins (Round 3, Pick 72).