Bears 2024 season & 2025 off season Oline roadmap thread

I'm thinking this should be a dual-track approach to the OL from here on out.  Yes, draft OL in the first and second rounds next year and add one big FA signing.  You're going to have to do both I think with 4 starting positions needing upgrades.  And also, I do hope Poles is adding a developmental guy from time to time... not because the Bears are in crisis mode and need to do that.  But rather they have a great OL of starters and can afford to buy a lottery ticket, drafting a late round guy to develop.  But first the focus needs to be on those 4 starting positions that are not very good right now.  We are starting guys who (at best) are depth players.

I think Amegadjie is a special case in that Poles figured he was a 1st or high-2nd round talent who dropped due to the surgically repaired leg.  He had to be thinking it would be a redshirt season for him - that's why he dropped in the draft.  Nobody is going to give a 1st round pick for a redshirt OL.  My point is that he is not your typical mid-round draft guy.  He does have real talent, if he can stay healthy.  He looks like a natural LT and not an interior OL guy.  Poles is gambling that he can take over LT next year.  But who knows, right?  

I don't know. Can the Bears upgrade the offensive line with only a 5th and 7th round picks in the 2025 draft?

They traded their 6th rounder to Seattle, and if Justin Fields sees more than 51% of the snaps, that pick becomes a 4th rounder. There's no way Poles spends a lofty 4th round pick on an offensive lineman unless it's by trade.

Backup player at this point. Might be better served in this role than as a starter.