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Bears Pick Third in NFL Draft

The Chicago bears have the third pick in tonight’s NFL Draft.  Number three is the highest the Bears have picked in more than four decades.  General Manager Ryan Pace is in charge of making the selection for Chicago.

“Picking so high, yeah you feel the responsibility of picking so high, but you also feel the excitement of that and what it’s gonna do to our team. The blueprint of building our team is gonna be through the draft, so every single one of these drafts is critical.”

Most experts are predicting the Bears will take a defensive player.  The last two NFL drafts were held in downtown Chicago.  Tonight’s draft is in Philadelphia.  It starts at 7 pm.