{"id":851739,"date":"2026-04-03T18:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851739\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:28:16","slug":"chicago-bears-get-bad-nfl-draft-news-weeks-before-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851739\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears Get Bad NFL Draft News Weeks Before Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Bears<\/a> made some sneaky-solid offseason moves, but eventually took an L off the field. They lost a key front office piece when Ian Cunningham bolted for the Atlanta Falcons <\/a>GM job, and now the comp pick they were banking on? Yeah\u2026 that\u2019s looking like a no-go.<\/p>\n

Chicago was hoping the NFL would throw them a bone with a compensatory pick after Cunningham\u2019s exit. However, since Matt Ryan is running the show in Atlanta as President of Football Ops, Cunningham doesn\u2019t technically hold the top football authority role. <\/p>\n

The NFL just made it official. No compensatory picks. Case closed. Per ESPN\u2019s Courtney Cronin on X<\/a>, the league told Chicago their appeal didn\u2019t move the chains: Cunningham\u2019s exit doesn\u2019t qualify for draft comp, and that\u2019s the final whistle on that debate.<\/p>\n

The Bears tried to make the case that Ian Cunningham stepping into a GM role with the Falcons should count, but the league wasn\u2019t convinced. Even though Cunningham handled GM duties and showed up in the annual GM photo, the NFL said it wasn\u2019t enough to meet the criteria.<\/p>\n

Chicago reportedly pushed hard even after the league dropped its 2026 draft order back in March (with zero comp picks for them), but the replay didn\u2019t go their way. Now, they\u2019re heading into the 2026 NFL Draft with their original seven picks. Headlined by No. 25 overall and a pair of second-rounders.<\/p>\n

No bonus picks. No bailout. Just the hand they were dealt. And now it\u2019s on the Bears\u2019 front office to make every snap count on draft weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears made some sneaky-solid offseason moves, but eventually took an L off the field. They lost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[254,374,692,391,2493,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-851739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-chicagobears","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116342194541856108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851739","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=851739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}