Dan Wiederer: How Chicago Bears GM Ryan Poles will navigate the NFL combine to get the most out of the No. 1 pick
The hotel lobbies in downtown Indianapolis are filling up quickly and the corridors inside the Indianapolis Convention Center are beginning to bustle. This, Chicago Bears fans, is where the magic is happening this week. In central Indiana, off Exit 114 of Interstate 65. Inside the beehive at the NFL scouting combine.
It’s all beginning to swirl like the strong late-winter winds — the curiosity and chatter, the rumors and realities.
In these lobbies. In these corridors. At restaurants. At bars.
Inside Lucas Oil Stadium. At the train station adjacent to the Crowne Plaza. Near the Starbucks off the second-floor escalator at the JW Marriott.
As the kids on social media like to say, #iykyk.
This could become a landmark week for Bears general manager Ryan Poles, crowned in Chicago as the unofficial emcee of the 2023 NFL offseason. Poles pulled into Indianapolis with, to put it bluntly, . Namely, he has the No. 1 draft pick plus an elevated credit line
