Dane Brugler: Bears can't pass on WR Rome Odunze at No. 9.

5th metatarsal, yeah gotcha.  Not a dealbreaker but foot injuries are a bigger issue for 300 lb linemen grappling in the trenches than they are for you and me.  

Lemme make this clear also:
I LOVE JPJ.  I'd love to have him.  Just not sure I love him enough to spend a 1st on him.  Graham Barton, Frazier, and a few others should be available on Day 2.  

As will lots of other players who play more impactful and costly positions.

I struggle with what would be the best support for Caleb Williams, because an argument can be made that WR is best, or you could say OL would be best, or you could make the argument that an elite edge rusher opposite Montez Sweat would elevate the defense in a way that takes some pressure off of our rookie QB.  Basically the argument is that this will mean Caleb won't have to score as high in these games each week as he had to last season at USC.  I'll be honest, I get attracted to each of these possibilities - these 3 main options - WR, OL or Edge options.  They all would have a positive impact upon a rookie QB's success.  In theory (not necessarily accurate) I would think the OL would be the option that would help a rookie QB the most.  If you don't have time to pass to WRs then a WR has diminishing returns.  But (this makes me crazier than I already am) if the OL is "okay" and "good enough" with the FA center and (hopefully) Jenkins isn't glassman this year, and Nate Davis is better this year than last year at RG - then sure, draft that elite WR and we're set.  And maybe we just forget about getting a guy to complement Montez Sweat and just take our lumps this year on D to some extent.  Kick the can on Edge down to next year.

I do go back and forth.  I think I prefer to draft Odunze or Nabers as my favorite option due to K. Allen being old (and probably a one year rental anyway).  But if we go OL at #9 then that guy has to be an OT.  You don't (or shouldn't) draft a G or C that high.  So then what?  Brax is now a backup swing OT.  I don't make an elite RT (and Darnell Wright is definitely an elite RT in the making) I don't make him a lessor value guy as a G.  I just don't do that.  If we draft a T at #9 that means the Brax experiment is dead.  He just got upgraded in this draft.  Is that what we want?

If we want a G or C then we need to trade down that #9 pick.  And I'm not convinced JPJ is going to be a better player than Frazier or even Van Pran.  Maybe.  But it's not a slam dunk to me.  We should revisit this in 3 years and see who the best C was in this draft.  We may be surprised (I think we will be).

My point is that statement "max support for the QB" isn't as black-and-white to me as it may be with others.  Doesn't mean I'm right or wrong, but just that I struggle with making up my mind definitively on this.  I want max support for Caleb Williams but can't make up my mind as to exactly what IS best here.

And outside of DJ and KA the rest of the WR room isn't much.  If either guy gets injured, or KA moves on after this season to another team, it would be good to have another solid WR... a young one who, as you point out, could pair with Caleb for a number of years.  It makes sense.