McShay mocks up Harvin and Max Unger for the Bears
Well mock draft season progresses as we see ESPN’s first two round mock-up by Todd McShay. While his hair might not be on par with Mel Kiper his analysis is top notch.
In this draft McShay projected the Bears to select WR Percy Harvin out of Florida with the 18th pick and OG/OC Max Unger out of Oregon with the 49th pick.
Both player are guys who would step in and compete for serious playing time immediately. Harvin would bring a very similar skill set as Devin Hester giving the Bears two burners on the outside and forcing teams secondaries to play back and letting Greg Olsen and Desmond Clark control the middle of the field.
Unger on the other hand has great versatility having played both OT and C in college. At just 300lbs he probably doesn’t have the size to stay at Tackle in the NFL but he could provide big time competition on the inside; pushing Beekman and Garza and providing a more legitimate back-up to Olin Kreutz.
I certainly feel a lot better about this option than what Kiper had previously suggested with the DE Jackson out of LSU. While DE is a need for the Bears it’s time for the Bears to start building this offense with speed and getting younger on the line.
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Gary W. February 17th at 8:34 pm
Call me crazy if you like, but a skillset like Devin Hester on the opposite of the field is exactly the threat the Bears need. The safteys would almost be demanded to help over the top, and leave the rest of the field to Greg Olsen, and Des Clark(or anyone else headed into the flat, or short center of the field) then when defenses try to adjust to the passing game, we go to the running game till they put in their run stuffers. The only problem that could come about is if Ron Turner want to get “cute” and run out of the I formation and pass in the singleback setup. If defenses don’t know what is coming at em until it happens, we can see record yards. Then we just wait for the news on what the defense looks like.