Chicago Bears NFL Draft: 3 mistakes Pace can’t makeon April 16, 2020 at 11:00 am

To be sure, Pace will have a lot on his mind during the three days of the draft and the week leading up to it. In the “new normal” dictated by the COVID-19 outbreak, teams must worry about things like network security, and contingency plans for losing power, or what to do if they learn their Zoom calls have been hacked.

All of these new concerns are in addition to those traditional worries that keep GMs up at night. ‘Do I trust my evaluation?’ ‘Am I giving too much or too little weight to this player’s red flags?’ ‘Does that one scout pounding the table for a player no one else seems to like know something I don’t?’

Of course, this is why the general managers get paid the big bucks. Well, that and putting together a roster that can compete for a Super Bowl each year and have sustained success.

To that end, there should be a checklist of sorts that Pace keeps in his pocket to remind him of the things he absolutely cannot do in this draft. Put another way, the things he has done in previous drafts that have gotten him in trouble. So here are three mistakes Pace must avoid in this upcoming draft.