{"id":875468,"date":"2026-04-26T20:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/875468\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:48:19","slug":"film-study-new-bears-udfa-caden-barnett-a-nasty-explosive-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/875468\/","title":{"rendered":"Film study: New Bears UDFA Caden Barnett a nasty, explosive guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Of the Bears\u2019 undrafted free agent signings, the highest-rated on my board is Wyoming offensive lineman Cade Barnett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A three-year starter at Wyoming, Barnett spent 2023 and 2024 as the Cowboys\u2019 starting right tackle. In 2025, he kicked inside to right guard and earned all-conference recognition for his performance. He was a wrestler in high school, and that shows in his capabilities in the trenches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barnett is the No. 305 overall player on my board for the 2026 NFL Draft and is my fourth-best guard prospect who ended up not getting drafted. I\u2019m intrigued by him as a potential fit for the 53-man roster; here are my thoughts on the man nicknamed the \u201cVanilla Gorilla\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of the Bears\u2019 undrafted free agent signings, the highest-rated on my board is Wyoming offensive lineman Cade Barnett.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,75257,8127,743,742,2493,7,53724,6,10682,55064],"class_list":["post-875468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-bears","tag-bears","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears","tag-chicago-bears-analysis","tag-chicago-bears-depth-chart","tag-chicago-bears-draft","tag-chicago-bears-roster","tag-chicagobears","tag-football","tag-from-the-desk-of","tag-nfl","tag-notes","tag-xs-and-os"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116472978103934832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875468","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=875468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}