{"id":848439,"date":"2026-04-02T02:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/848439\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:25:15","slug":"the-chicago-bears-comp-picks-situation-has-new-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/848439\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears Comp Picks Situation has New Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Last month, the NFL announced which teams would receive compensatory draft picks in 2026, and the Chicago Bears were not among them. That should have finally closed the door on any hope that the franchise had that they\u2019d be awarded picks for losing Assistant General Manager Ian Cunningham to the Atlanta Falcons, who hired him as their new General Manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After all, the League\u2019s Rooney Rule is clear. Each club declares who their primary decision maker is, and whether they call that individual a general manager, a team president, or the head of football operations; that\u2019s the number one guy. Anyone under them, even if they are called the general manager, is secondary. Meaning that Cunningham\u2019s move was considered a lateral one, even though he went from assistant GM to GM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Even though the Bears already appealed the decision that Atlanta\u2019s organizational structure resembles their own, which should have garnered them the comp picks, they appealed it again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamHoge\/status\/2039372553085472877\" rel=\"nofollow\">Earlier today<\/a> at the annual owners\u2019 meetings, Bears Team President Kevin Warren said that he, Chairman George McCaskey, and General Manager Ryan Poles recently flew to New York to meet with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Warren said he expects to hear a final decision soon and that he feels they \u201cdeserve the compensatory picks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 2026 NFL Draft is later this month, so shoehorning in a pick wouldn\u2019t be impossible, but it seems unlikely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Goodell could look at this unique situation and see that it warrants something for the Bears. Maybe not the standard two-third round comp picks, but maybe they award them one in 2027 while revisiting the language of the Rooney Rule. Because even though Matt Ryan is technically listed as the Falcons\u2019 number one guy, the Falcons have spelled out Cunningham\u2019s responsibilities more in line with that of the primary decision-maker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, the NFL announced which teams would receive compensatory draft picks in 2026, and the Chicago Bears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,741,224,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-848439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlantafalcons","11":"tag-chicago-bears-news","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116332746001607698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}