Chicago traded pick No. 60 to Tennessee during the 2026 NFL Draft, sending the selection to the Titans in exchange for pick No. 69 and pick No. 144. The move left the Bears with two more chances later in the draft and gave Tennessee a shot at the board just ahead of Chicago’s original slot.
The deal was priced at 300 points of value for 279, a discount that put the trade at the value of No. 63 overall. In practice, it was a way for Chicago to keep adding picks after its board had thinned out, and it fit the team’s need to refill the back end of the draft.
Chicago had just taken Iowa center Logan Jones before making the bears titans trade, then used the added flexibility to slide down and collect more capital. The Bears have described that pick as the “DJ Moore” pick, a label that underscored how the front office viewed the trade-down strategy in that spot.
Tennessee used the pick it gained from Chicago to select off-ball linebacker Anthony Hill, Jr., turning the Bears’ move into an immediate defensive addition for the Titans. For Chicago, the point was not the player it passed on at No. 60 but the extra volume it could squeeze out of a draft where its selections had already been depleted.
The trade did what these midround deals are supposed to do: it exchanged a premium slot for two later chances and left both teams with clear reasons for the move. Chicago got more bites at the draft, and Tennessee got the chance to make its pick without waiting for the board to come back around.
