Memo to Bears: DON’T DRAFT A RECEIVER IN THE FIRST ROUND!

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Published: March 12, 2009

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... to consistently draft quality players in the first round.

One of the hardest positions to draft in the first round, other than QB, is wide receiver.  This is for a number of reasons.

The first is that learning an NFL offense is much harder than what most college receivers are used to.

The second is that every week in the NFL, there are quality cornerbacks you must face as opposed to in college, where you may face potential NFL corners maybe half the time.

The third, and this is merely my opinion, is that receivers are the biggest prima donnas in the NFL. 

Now I understand that to play at that level of football, you have to be 110 percent confident in your abilities.

But it just seems that receivers are more shocked when they reach the NFL level that they cannot survive on their talent alone and they talk more trash that any other position.

To give us a perspective, let's review the receivers who were taken in the...

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