Welcome back in to first draft. We are exactly 10 weeks away from the start of the

2024 NFL draft, but who's counting other than us? I'm Field Yate

and he needs so introduction Mel Kuiper

Jr. Mel good morning my friend.

Great to be with you Field. We got a lot to go over with this trade possibility with

the number one pick overall then we have the rating sport coming out tomorrow

so we'll have some guys that are the toughest to really figure out where they belong

on our rating sport even on our positional rankings for that matter.

It's going to be a big spirited show because yes we were going to dive into some offers that were part of a piece that I worked with Courtney Cronin our great Bears NFL Nation reporter on

The dove into ideas concepts possibilities for the bears to consider both in terms of offers for the number one pick and also offers for Justin Fields and then as Mel mentioned,

will go into five or so players that despite the fact that they might end up being first round picks or might be top 25 players on our big board.

Maybe a little bit outside of that are really tough players to rank a reminder this is much more

an art than it is a science for those that are watching this on YouTube thank you be

sure to check us out on the podcast version as well. First wrap every Monday,

every Thursday Monday live on YouTube at 11 a.m.

Eastern time and 2 p.m. Eastern time on E.S.P.

2 for those that want to watch us up on the big screen.

But now let's dive into it. Justin Fields, the number one pick, the number one pick. Justin Fields, it has been perhaps the most bandied about storyline throughout the entire pre-draft process so far.

So before I start to pass along my hypothetical trade offers,

now let's dive into this Bayer's decision.

Do you think this is a decision that is easy and straightforward or do you think this is one where

48% of the Bayer stakeholders within the office and the personnel department are pulling Ryan Poles one way and 52% of them are pulling him the other way.

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