{"id":873503,"date":"2026-04-24T12:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873503\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:39:14","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-best-available-prospects-for-the-chicago-bears-after-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873503\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft: Best available prospects for the Chicago Bears after day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day one of the 2026 NFL Draft is officially in the books, and the Chicago Bears selected Oregon Safety <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/dillon-thieneman-46117033\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dillon Thieneman<\/a> with the 25th overall pick, marking a big addition to the secondary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With rounds two and three set to begin on Friday night, the Bears will have three selections, at 57th, 60th, and 89th overall, providing the franchise with another opportunity to add some more difference makers and long-term building blocks to the roster. In <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/ryan-poles-26654\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ryan Poles<\/a> fifth draft with the franchise, the primary goal is to build on the foundation that head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Coach\/ben-johnson-1398\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ben Johnson<\/a> and his staff established last year, while providing the coaching staff with a chance to ensure that the roster takes a big step forward in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get into some of the top names available with day two set to begin tonight:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CB Jermod McCoy (Tennessee)Edge Zion Young (Missouri)Edge Gabe Jacas (Illinois)CB Avieon Terrell (Clemson)DT Kayden McDonald (Ohio State)CB Colton Hood (Tennesee)\u00a0IOL Chase Bisontis (Texas A&amp;M)\u00a0DT Christen Miller (Georgia)\u00a0LB Jacob Rodriguez (Texas Tech)\u00a0Edge Derrick Moore (Michigan)\u00a0Edge T.J.Parker (Clemson)\u00a0LB Jake Golday (Cincinnati)\u00a0LB Kyle Louis (Pittsburgh)\u00a0LB CJ Allen (Georgia)\u00a0LB Josiah Trotter (Missouri)\u00a0CB D&#8217;Angelo Ponds (Indiana)\u00a0WR De&#8217;Zhaun Stribling (Ole Miss)\u00a0Edge Jaishawn Barham (Michigan)\u00a0CB Brandon Cisse (South Carolina)\u00a0IOL Connor Lew (Auburn)\u00a0IOL Sam Hecht (Kansas State)\u00a0OL Gennings Dunker (Iowa)\u00a0IOL Logan Jones (Iowa)\u00a0CB Keionte Scott (Miami, FL)\u00a0S Treydan Stukes (Arizona St.)WR Malachi Fields (Notre Dame)WR Denzel Boston (Washington)LB Anthony Hill Jr. (Texas)\u00a0Edge Cashius Howell (Texas A&amp;M)Edge R Mason Thomas (Oklahoma)WR Zachariah Branch (Georgia)\u00a0TE Max Klare (Ohio State)\u00a0WR Antonio Williams (Clemson)\u00a0DT Domonique Orange (Iowa State)\u00a0Edge Keyron Crawford (Auburn)<\/p>\n<p>Not a VIP subscriber to the Bear Report?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/nfl\/chicago-bears\/join\/?promo=JOIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up now<\/a>\u00a0to get access to everything publisher Zack Pearson and the entire Bear Report team have to offer on all things\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/nfl\/chicago-bears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Bears<\/a>\u00a0and access to the No. 1 site covering the team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Day one of the 2026 NFL Draft is officially in the books, and the Chicago Bears selected Oregon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2493,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-873503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-chicagobears","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116459730575952982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873503","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=873503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}