The NFL Draft will begin tonight at 7:00 pm CT from Green Bay, Wisconsin, with the Tennessee Titans scheduled to make the first pick. Each club has 10 minutes to discuss their options before making a decision, at which time a team representative notifies the league.

There are a few ways we can determine when the Chicago Bears are expected to go on the clock.

If Tennessee goes on the clock promptly at 7:00 pm CT on Thursday (they probably won’t), and each team takes its allotted 10 minutes, then the Bears will go on the clock at approximately 8:40 pm CT if they stay at the tenth overall selection.

The last time the Bears picked at ten overall (2023), they chose right tackle Darnell Wright, and the NFL shared the news in a Tweet at 8:26 pm CT.

Last year’s first round took three hours and 36 minutes, so if divided by 32 teams, that comes out to 6.75 minutes per selection. Times that by 10, and that puts the Bears making their pick about an hour and 7 minutes after the draft starts. Previous drafts have about a ten-minute preamble from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, which would place the approximate Bears pick time at 8:17 pm CT.

To be on the safe side, if you just want to tune in for the tenth pick, I’d flip the draft on about 8:15. But to be 100% sure, you can have our 2nd City Gridiron YouTube chanel on as Bill Zimmerman will be livestreaming for most of the first round and discussing the draft with a Bears slant.

As for which position Chicago will pick at 10, our partners at FanDuel have some odds on that.

As of the writing of this article, running back is the favorite (+230), followed by tight end (+290), defensive lineman/edge (+390), and offensive lineman (+420)

Those numbers have been moving all week, so hit the link for their most recent updates.