At least the Bears got to use their brand-new, high-tech draft room last year.
As part of a massive renovation and expansion of Halas Hall, the Bears built a new state-of-the-art draft room with general manager Ryan Pace's fingerprints all over it. The media got to sneak a peak at it last year, and it’s truly impressive in how it helps, functionally, to conduct a draft.
The size of the draft board, in particular, is stunning. Nobody's squinting at a grainy screen to watch tape of a prospect.
“It's tied into our scouting database, so there's a million things we can pull up on this wall or however you want to do it,” Pace said last year.