The Bears located a few players who could provide an instant impact last April. In fact, Pro Football Focus thinks they provided the biggest impact across the entire league.
The Bears appeared to have hit a home run with their 2025 NFL Draft haul. While nobody was gifted a starring role right away, four rookies on the offensive side of the ball provided huge impacts down the stretch.
It's difficult to quantify just how impactful one rookie class is to another. There are simply too many variables at play to make an accurate assessment on the matter. However, from the eye test, the Bears definitely seemed to have one of the league's best rookie classes.Pro Football Focus certainly does. They have Chicago's rookie class at the top of their WAR rankings for the 2025 NFL season.The metric helps quantify the number of wins a player accounts for, factoring in how the team would perform with a mid-tier starter. It considers positional value and overall player impact.You could make a strong case that Colston Loveland is already one of the league's best tight ends, and the most exciting part is he's still only 21. No tight end played better than the tenth overall pick over the second half of the year, and he's really started to light up the stat sheets over the past month.Their first second-round picks, Luther Burden III, whom the team selected with the 39th pick, also came on strong over the second half of the season. He showed flashes of dominance down the stretch and was one of the league's most efficient weapons.The Bears also got quality play out of 56th overall pick Ozzy Trapilo after he took over the starting left tackle job in Week 12. He stabilized the position that was previously the weak spot on Chicago's offensive line and looked good enough to eliminate the need to prioritize the position in the offseason. Unfortunately, Trapilo suffered a torn Achilles in their miraculous win in the Wild Card Round over Green Bay. While they'll definitely be hoping he will bounce back strong and eventually regain the starting job, they will surely bring in some insurance at the left tackle spot this offseason to bridge the gap. The Bears saved their best pick for last. They landed one of thewith the seventh-round selection of Kyle Monangai. The 233rd pick ran for nearly 800 yards and proved to be the perfect complement to starter D'Andre Swift. Together, they formed one of the league's best backfield duos. Monangai performed liked one of the best backs in the entire class. He earned the third-highest WAR score to show for it. While Trapilo's injury puts a damper on the unit's outlook, there is no denying the impact that they made as rookies. The Bears wouldn't have made it nearly as far as they have without their much-needed contributions.The Bears start a new chapter of the rivalry against Green Bay with Wild Card winThe Rams are the Bears toughest remaining obstacle to a Super Bowl appearanceJERRY MARKARIAN Jerry Markarian has been an avid Chicago Bears fan since 2010 and has been writing about the team since 2022. He has survived the 2010 NFC Championship Game, a career-ending injury to his favorite player , the Bears' 2013 season finale, a Double Doink, Mitchell Trubisky, Justin Fields, and Weeks 8-17 of the 2024 NFL season. Nevertheless, he still Bears Down!Chicago Bears' 2025 rookie class earns impressive ranking from ESPN
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