Ryan Poles paid the going rate in order to pick up a defender this year when the opportunity presented itself.
Ryan Poles has made a trade. He traded the Chicago Bears’ 2025 4th-round pick (probably worth around 31 points in Jimmy Johnson value) for pick #144 in this draft (34 points), making the deal with the Buffalo Bills. That basically means that he bought a current pick with a future pick at a one-round discount, paying almost exactly the conventional rate. Of interest might be that this pick was originally Chicago’s pick but that it had been traded to Buffalo for Ryan Bates.
The selection itself was spent on Austin Booker, an Edge rusher out of Kansas. However, the trade is about as simple and straightforward as they come.
Just since the modern CBA went into effect, there have been more than 20 trades just like this, where some team–usually on Day 3–trades a pick into the future.
The merits of giving up a full round of value have been debated, but if Poles was able to pick up a player for Matt Eberflus and Eric Washington at the cost of a single future pick (in a draft where the Bears have some extra capital to play with), it’s a minor cost.
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