{"id":873513,"date":"2026-04-24T12:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873513\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:57:21","slug":"chicago-bears-have-drafted-100-players-in-the-first-round-since-1936-and-12-are-in-the-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873513\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears have drafted 100 players in the first round since 1936 \u2014 and 12 are in the Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Chicago Tribune;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Chicago Tribune\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"172\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2595d340-e2b4-11ed-adff-073634a12b40.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune<\/p>\n<p>Fri, April 24, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"772\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d43faa1c97a2744f1d2d0689036e28e5.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> (Chris Sweda\/Chicago Tribune\/TNS)<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Bears made their 100th first-round selection Thursday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/tag\/nfl-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL draft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">NFL draft<\/a>. Oregon safety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/04\/23\/nfl-draft-chicago-bears-pick-dillon-thieneman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dillon Thieneman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Dillon Thieneman<\/a> was the team\u2019s choice with the No. 25 pick.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve of the Bears\u2019 first-round picks have been inducted into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/08\/05\/from-halas-to-covert-the-30-chicago-bears-inducted-into-the-pro-football-hall-of-fame\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pro Football Hall of Fame;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Pro Football Hall of Fame<\/a>. Four of them (including Hall of Famers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballhof.com\/players\/walter-payton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Walter Payton;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Walter Payton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballhof.com\/players\/brian-urlacher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brian Urlacher;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Brian Urlacher<\/a>) stuck with the team for 13 consecutive seasons. A dozen or so never saw a snap for the Bears.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/04\/26\/chicago-bears-draft-picks-first-words\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u2018When I get through with Chicago, they\u2019ll be loving me.\u2019 Looking back at first words from the Bears\u2019 top draft picks.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">\u2018When I get through with Chicago, they\u2019ll be loving me.\u2019 Looking back at first words from the Bears\u2019 top draft picks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look back at the Bears\u2019 selections since the first NFL draft, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/teams\/chi\/draft.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pro Football Reference;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Pro Football Reference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Want the latest Bears news? <a href=\"https:\/\/mktops.chicagotribune.com\/subscriptions\/land-flash-sale-g-ct\/?market=ct&amp;source=manage&amp;g2i_source=MC&amp;g2i_medium=manage_member_center&amp;g2i_campaign=FG24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Subscribe to the Chicago Tribune;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Subscribe to the Chicago Tribune<\/a> to read it all \u2014 and sign up for our <a href=\"https:\/\/signups.medianewsgroup.com\/bears_insider\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bears Insider newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Bears Insider newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most \u2014 and least \u2014 Bears selections by NFL draft year<\/p>\n<p>The most first-round picks by the Bears in a single draft were three (1941, 1951 and 1965).<\/p>\n<p>The franchise did not have a first-round pick in 1970, 1978, 1997, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2019, 2020 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Bears selections by pick number<\/p>\n<p>The No. 11 pick has been the Bears\u2019 most frequent pick. The team has had the No.1 pick just three times in its history. (Two of those selections were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/12\/08\/chicago-bears-have-selected-only-2-no-1-draft-picks-in-team-history-and-both-were-disappointing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:bummers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">bummers<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Bears\u2019 first-round draft picks by college or university<\/p>\n<p>Almost one-third of the Bears\u2019 first-round draft picks have been from five schools.<\/p>\n<p>Bears\u2019 99 first-round selections since 1936<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune Fri, April 24, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC (Chris Sweda\/Chicago Tribune\/TNS) The Chicago Bears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,34389,692,391,2493,1972,7,6,8992],"class_list":{"0":"post-873513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-brian-urlacher","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-chicagobears","13":"tag-first-round-selection","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-pro-football-reference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116459802056691830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873513","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=873513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}