One unsatisfying draft

Somehow, it just didn't feel the same.

The first two days of the NFL draft were more than just boring for Bears fans.

It was downright unsatisfying.

Usually, we'd awake today and discuss the Bears trading out of their top picks to accumulate lower selections where they might find the likes of Dan Bazuin, Michael Okwo, Mark Bradley and Roosevelt Williams.

But there was no such drama in the 2010 NFL draft.

We were left to hold out hope that GM Jerry Angelo would step in front of the microphones and dispense with the usual array of crooked clichés, mixed metaphors and awkward analogies.

When he finally took Major Wright, a safety out of Florida, how fun it would have been had he announced that the Bears never had their eye on Wright, that he didn't fall to them, and that in reality they reached far to get him.

How refreshing if Angelo had said they have low expectations of him, that he's unproductive and doesn't compete too hard, because he's a low-motor guy lacking energy who's uncoachable, has a low ceiling and possesses weak character.

Of course, Angelo didn't say any of that.

The Bears expect Wright to compete for a starting job in training camp, which any safety off the street ought to be able to do.

Wright was projected as a fourth- or fifth-rounder by most, not a third, and while they didn't get the offensive lineman, corner or receiver they desperately needed, they also need help at safety and got one who was being pushed by a freshman at Florida.

The Bears will say he's a physical playmaker, but most reports say he didn't make enough plays for the Gators and he's an average tackler.

Welcome to Chicago, Major Wright.

But this is what you get when you fail miserably at drafting and developing for a decade.

You get a draft - another draft - where you get very little help and expect very little help.

When you fail to discover talent and coach it well, you have to trade your picks for players, spend scores of millions in free agency to fill holes, and put together an expensive, high-profile staff filled with former head coaches.

You wind up with the fewest picks in the history of the franchise (five), and you have to wait 26 hours from the start of the draft to select your first player at No. 75.

Before that occurred, more than a dozen offensive linemen and even more defensive backs went off the board, and some outstanding receivers found new homes.

The Bears got Major Wright.

Let us rejoice.

brozner@dailyherald.com

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