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Bears GM Ryan Pace ready for work-from-home NFL draft

Bears general manager Ryan Pace has seven screens set up in the dining room of his Lake Bluff home, about 5 feet from his kitchen. Two computers have college video downloaded onto them. There’s a tablet for his reports and another for the 100 or so video chats he’s logged with potential picks for the NFL draft, which starts Thursday night.

None of them were any match for the vacuum cleaner.

Pace’s wife Stephanie hit Pace’s power cord while doing housework a few days ago.

“Every screen goes black,” Pace said Tuesday.

When Pace was stationed down in his basement earlier this month during the Bears’ draft prep, he could tell when his 10-year-old daughter Cardyn was on her iPad — his video chat with a prospect would lag.