04/27/2024 by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire

Bears' Austin Booker: Scooped up by Chicago in Round 5

The Chicago Bears selected Austin Booker in the fifth round of the 2024 NFL Draft, 144th overall.This looks like a nice pick for Chicago, because Booker is probably one of the more talented edge rushers in the draft. The catch is that Booker (6-foot-5, 240 pounds) might need development time or/and time to bulk up before he can play regular snaps, and he might be a healthy scratch up to that point. The Kansas product probably hurt his stock at the NFL Combine between the low weigh-in and the resultingly disappointing 4.79-second 40-yard dash, but he likely would have had a more well-rounded workout if he had the benefit of another year or two of development, as he has only 18 games of college experience.