Chicago Bears beat writer drops weird take on 2025 NFL Draft

Will running back Omarion Hampton be available for the Chicago Bears to select in the second round of the 2025 NFL Draft? Not so much. | Stephanie Amador Blondet-Imagn Images

Listen, I have nothing but love and respect for Adam Jahns.

Jahns has been a high-profile Chicago sports reporter since 2005; over the last 15 years, he's covered the Bears for multiple outlets. Dude’s got game.

The Bears are in no position to pass on a blue chip player in their current state, regardless of their other roster needs and the value of other positions.

My pick is in.

The @TheAthleticNFL's Beat Writer Mock Draft 2.0.https://t.co/SuJWmXpQiC

— Adam Jahns (@adamjahns) March 20, 2025

But in a March 27 Athletic column in which he revisited the Bears’ 2025 NFL Draft big board, Jahns offered a surprising list of players Chicago could target in the second round:

• Josh Conerly Jr., OT, Oregon

• Omarion Hampton, RB, North Carolina

• Malaki Starks, S, Georgia

• Josh Simmons, OT, Ohio State

• Grey Zabel, OL, North Dakota State

Wouldn’t It Be Nice?

Nobody would argue that each and every one of those rookies-to-be would look smashing in a Chicago Bears uniform.

But everybody would argue about their second-round availability, the argument being that there won’t be any second-round availability, that all will be selected in round one. (Hell, I wouldn't be shocked or upset if Bears GM Ryan Poles tabbed Hampton in the first.)

NFL Mock Draft Database, your one-stop-shop for mock draft aggregation, tells us that the consensus of experts they most recently surveyed had nary a one of those five still on the board when the Chicago Bears pick at 39.

And they aggregated the numbers to prove it:

• 11% of mock drafters feel Kansas City will pick Conerly at 31.

• 18% of mock drafters feel Seattle will pick Zabel at 18.

• 28% of mock drafters feel Houston will pick Simmons at 25.

• 29% of mock drafters feel Minnesota will pick Starks at 24.

• Finally, a whopping 47% of mock drafters feel Denver will pick Hampton at 20.

The day for Omarion Hampton —

40: 4.47
Vert: 38”
Broad: 10’10”

At a rocked up 221 lbs. pic.twitter.com/9lWApbe9Ex

— Ryan Fowler (@_RyanFowler_) March 1, 2025

Man, talk about fantasy football…