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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mark Potash

No end in sight for Bears’ defense in 2023 draft

DeMarcus Walker (95), who signed a three-year, $21 million contract with the Bears in free agency, had seven sacks for the Titans last year, including this one of the Bengals’ Joe Burrow. (Photo by Silas Walker/Getty Images)

Bears general manager Ryan Poles had nearly twice as much salary-cap space as any other team in the NFL entering free agency. And he had four of the top 64 picks in the NFL Draft. 

And yet, when the draft ended Saturday night, a Bears team that had the fewest sacks in the NFL last season (20) heads into the next phase of the offseason with DeMarcus Walker, Trevis Gipson and Dominique Robinson as its edge-rusher rotation, with former Viking Jalyn Holmes and former Ram Terrell Lewis as its only other defensive ends with NFL experience.  

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