{"id":565052,"date":"2026-04-05T00:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565052\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:09:07","slug":"chicago-bears-draft-akheem-mesidor-could-add-instant-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565052\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears Draft: Akheem Mesidor could add instant impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On her latest Making Monsters podcast, Taylor Doll is joined by Adam Lichtenstein, who covers the Miami Hurricanes for the South Florida Sun Sentinel. They chat about several Miami prospects who were large parts of their run to the National Championship, including Akheem Mesidor, Keionte Scott, and Jakobe Thomas, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Could one of these \u2018Canes end up in Chicago?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mesidor (6\u20193\u201d, 259) has been mocked to the Bears a bit, and while he is an older prospect (he\u2019ll turn 25 tomorrow), he should be able to provide immediate impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cRight away, you could tell Messidor was very much like a culture fit, and in his first year at UM (2022), he had a very good year, and that team was not good,\u201d Lichtenstein said on the show. \u201cThat team went five and seven, did not have a ton of talent on it, but Mezador was one of the standouts that year. Like I said, definitely a culture fit, very smart guy, very hardworking, and over the course of the last couple years, he\u2019s dealt with his share of injuries, which is why he\u2019s played six years of college ball. He dealt with his share of injuries, but when he\u2019s been healthy, he has been just an excellent edge rusher for Miami, and he was healthy this entire season, and you know, had his best year yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Scouts love his motor, move set, and makeup, and two years removed from surgery on torn ligaments in his feet, he had 12.5 sacks, 17.5 tackles for loss, and 4 forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Give Taylor\u2019s show a listen in either of the embeds below, and let us know if you\u2019d like the Bears to draft any Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Our 2nd City Gridiron Podcast Channel is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/2nd-city-gridiron\/id1740183213\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3AfUwxvqBNmGKEcalJmYJY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-2nd-city-gridiron-165564430\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iHeart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/podcast\/2nd-city-gridiron-4ac36\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Audacy<\/a>, and other popular podcast platforms, so be sure to hit subscribe wherever you get your audio. Our YouTube home is also called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMXAZtZvYznksYB2z5cMDjA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2nd City Gridiron<\/a>, so subscribe there for our pods and other video content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s Taylor\u2019s full schedule for her NFL Draft series. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On her latest Making Monsters podcast, Taylor Doll is joined by Adam Lichtenstein, who covers the Miami Hurricanes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[180932,79569,52257,207081,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-565052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-chicago-bears-analysis","9":"tag-chicago-bears-draft","10":"tag-chicago-bears-news","11":"tag-chicago-bears-podcasts-videos","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-football","15":"tag-ncaafootball","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}