While Poles will do his due diligence on quarterbacks in the draft, he reiterated Tuesday that he remains committed to Justin Fields and would have to be “blown away” by one of the prospects to spend the No. 1 pick on a quarterback.
Poles added that the Bears have “always leaned” toward trading down from No. 1 and acknowledged that swapping that pick for additional draft assets would be the ideal scenario.
How far Poles is willing to move down will depend on the grades the Bears assign to draft prospects, a process that won’t begin until after the Combine concludes. The organization ranks players by color, beginning with blue, followed by red, gold, orange and gray.
“We should get some really good information this week to make us feel better about that so we know what that looks like,” Poles said. “This whole Combine event is about collecting information because we’ve still got to get back, we’ve got to put our draft board together, tighten that up from the information that we get here, and that’s really going to start to allow us to play the numbers game to see what’s possible, what makes sense for us.”
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