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Before and After
Before & After: Drafted by the Bears
With the 2021 NFL Draft kicking off Thursday night, take a look at current and former Bears before and after their names were called by the club on draft day.

LB Dick Butkus, Illinois
1965 | 1st round, 3rd overall

RB Tarik Cohen, North Carolina A&T
2017 | 4th round, 119th overall

OL James Daniels, Iowa
2018 | 2nd round, 39th overall

TE Mike Ditka, Pittsburgh
1961 | 1st round, 5th overall

RB Matt Forte, Tulane
2008 | 2nd round, 44th overall

NT Eddie Goldman, Florida State
2015 | 2nd round, 39th overall

DL Dan Hampton, Arkansas
1979 | 1st round, 4th overall

QB Jim Harbaugh, Michigan
1987 | 1st round, 26th overall

WR/KR/PR Devin Hester, Miami
2006 | 2nd round, 57th overall

DB Eddie Jackson, Alabama
2017 | 4th round, 112th overall

DB Jaylon Johnson, Utah
2020 | 2nd round, 50th overall

TE Cole Kmet, Notre Dame
2020 | 2nd round, 43rd overall

RB David Montgomery, Iowa State
2019 | 3rd round, 73rd overall

WR Darnell Mooney, Tulane
2020 | 5th round, 173rd overall

DL Bilal Nichols, Delaware
2018 | 5th round, 145th overall

RB Walter Payton, Jackson State
1975 | 1st round, 4th overall

DT William "Refrigerator" Perry, Clemson
1985 | 1st round, 22nd overall

RB Gale Sayers, Kansas
1965 | 1st round, 4th overall

LB Mike Singletary, Baylor
1981 | 2nd round, 38th overall

LB Roquan Smith, Georgia
2018 | 1st round, 8th overall

LB Brian Urlacher, New Mexico
2000 | 1st round, 9th overall

OL Cody Whitehair, Kansas State
2016 | 2nd round, 56th overall