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Bears' Roquan Smith feels 'no pressure' despite expectations

LAKE FOREST, Ill. --– Georgia inside linebacker Roquan Smith is arguably the Chicago Bears' most NFL-ready first-round pick of the Ryan Pace era.

Pace’s previous three top-10 selections (Kevin White, Leonard Floyd and Mitchell Trubisky) were all -- to some degree -- viewed as projects on draft night.

The seventh overall pick in 2015, White posted monster numbers during his final season at West Virginia, but the wide receiver’s route-running tree was extremely limited, to say the least.

Floyd, who Pace moved up to take at No.