Some Cautions for Chicago Bears Fans With High Expectations

This!  I don't consider this a non-issue.  Personally, I view our OL as being a solid, decent OL.  If and only if everyone stays healthy.  And you have to ask yourself, when has that ever happened? I look at our OL as being very fragile.  What happens when Jenkins goes down for 3 games?  Or one of our other starters.  I agree with you that, in the NFL, it is not a quesiton of "if it happens", just a question of "when it happens".

The following assumes the scenario where we get Alt (or maybe even Fashanu, if Poles loves him) at #9.  Whatever, I mean Poles gets his long term bookends at OT.  We could have the nucleus of a very productive and solid OL for many years to come.  I wold prefer we keep Jones as a high quality swing OT.  That would give us some real depth on the OL.

I believe we still have our first round pick and have 2 2nd round picks in 2025.  If we resign Ngakwe for one more year (or do a similar short term veteran acquisition), I think we can still have a very high functioning defensive front 7 this year.  Admittedly not a long term solution.  But with our first and second rounders we could use all three to get an edge rusher to have similar bookends at DT and have enough draft capital to even get a decent OC as well.  At that point we may have a similar depth on the DL and maybe a really solid OL with depth.