Chicago Bears fans have spent the entire draft cycle circling the same positions in round 1: edge rusher, defensive tackle, safety. Then CBS Sports’ Pete Prisco dropped a mock that sends the Bears in a direction almost nobody in Chicago wants to hear.
At No. 25 overall, Prisco has the Bears selecting Blake Miller, a right tackle from Clemson despite Kayden McDonald (DT), Dillon Thieneman (S), Zion Young (EDGE), and Cashius Howell (EDGE) all still being on the board.
And if this is even close to how the board falls on draft night, Bears fans have every right to be furious.
This isn’t about Blake Miller the prospect
GettyRight Tackle Blake Miller
Blake Miller is good.
- 54 straight starts at Clemson
- Three time All-ACC
- Clemson record holder for career snaps
- Team captain, ironman, high football IQ
- Prototypical size at 6’7″, 317
But if the Chicago Bears take Miller at 25, the message about Ozzy Trapilo is deafening.
Trapilo is supposed to be the long term left tackle. Yes, he’s recovering from a patellar tendon rupture and 2026 is a little murky.
But using your only first round pick on a tackle would say something the Bears might not want to say out loud: They are not confident Trapilo is the answer anymore. Because if they were, this pick makes no sense.
You don’t spend Pick 25 on a tackle when you already have Trapilo (future LT, supposedly), Darnell Wright (future at RT), Braxton Jones, Jedrick Wills Jr., and Theo Benedet while your defense is missing difference makers at three levels.
To be fair, ESPN’s Peter Schrager’s mock draft also had Chicago taking a tackle with Alabama’s Kadyn Proctor, but that’s different. Proctor is a top 10 to top 15 prospect while Miller is not.
The real cost of this pick
GettyRight Tackle Blake Miller
The Chicago Bears finished last season tied for 22nd in sacks (35) and 29th in quarterback pressure rate (28.0%). Montez Sweat did his job, posting 10 sacks and drawing double teams all season. But opposite him? Nothing. Offenses schemed away from Sweat and dared Chicago’s secondary to stop them.
And the secondary situation is no secret either. C.J. Gardner-Johnson is gone. Jaquan Brisker is gone. Kevin Byard is gone. Nahshon Wright is gone. The group that led the NFL with 33 takeaways and 23 interceptions in 2025 is being rebuilt from scratch. There are still open questions at multiple spots in the back end, and the Bears have less than $250,000 in cap space to address them any other way.
Sure Blake Miller might turn into a solid NFL offensive lineman. The profile is there. The character is real. And protecting Caleb Williams matters above almost everything else this organization is trying to build.
But using the 25th pick on a player who projects as a right tackle, while edge rushers and safeties who fit the Bears’ exact needs fall off the board in the final picks of the first round, is the kind of decision that haunts a franchise for years.
The defense needs answers now. And those answers are sitting right there on the board.
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