They swapped their only Saturday pick (49th overall) to the Seahawks in exchange for Seattle's early third-round pick (68th overall) and their early fourth (105th overall). That left the Bears with nine picks on Day Two, including the seven they originally had; 99, 119, 140, 154, 190, 246 and 251. Only two other times in franchise history have the Bears not had a pick in the first two rounds, 1978 and 1970.

They didn't believe Georgia's Mohamed Massaquoi was a good value at 49 after seven other wide receivers were selected -- eight if you count West Virginia quarterback Pat White, who projects to wide receiver.

Massaquoi went 50th to the Browns. Ohio State wide receiver Brian Robiskie was a player the Bears hoped would fall to them, but there wasn't much chance of that. He went 36th, also to the Browns.

"Unfortunately, the players that we targeted at 49 did not fall to us, and we weren't in a position to move up," Angelo said. "We just didn't have enough to be an attractive candidate given what people were doing to move up in the draft."

The Bears had already given up their first- and third-round picks this year and next year's No. 1 for quarterback Jay Cutler on April 2. The highest 2009 pick they could have swapped Saturday was their own fourth-rounder (119 overall) because their late-third-rounder (99 overall) was a compensatory pick, which cannot be traded.

"So, rather than put a square peg in a round hole and take somebody that we feel we can get tomorrow, we picked up another pick," Angelo said.

--Running back Matt Forte and cornerback Charles Tillman were honored by the Bears last Thursday as the winners of the 2008 Brian Piccolo Award.

Since 1971, the Bears have given the award to a rookie who best exemplifies the courage, loyalty, teamwork, dedication and sense of humor of former Bears running back Brian Piccolo, who died of embryonal cell carcinoma in 1970 at age 26. In 1992, the award was expanded to also include a veteran.

Tillman also won the award as a rookie in 2003, only the sixth Bear to be honored as a rookie and a veteran. He led the Bears last season with 16 pass break-ups and had 3 interceptions, 1 of which he returned for a touchdown. Tillman was also sixth on the Bears with 91 tackles after a trying preseason in which his infant daughter Tiana required a heart transplant.

As a rookie, Forte rushed for 1,238 yards and caught 63 passes for 477 yards. He accounted for 34.99 percent of the Bears' yards from scrimmage, the highest percentage of any player in the NFL.

"A lot of rookies come in and play in the NFL, but very few come in as ready as Matt Forte," said Bears offensive coordinator Ron Turner. "Very few of them come in and have such a strong and immediate impact on a football team as what Matt did last year. The biggest problem that I have with Matt is making sure that we don't overwork him. He's so good and so intelligent that you don't want to take him off the field."

--Third-round DT Jarron Gilbert has excellent athleticism and all the physical tools. His athleticism has been displayed on YouTube since last summer when he jumped completely out of the shallow end of a pool, landing on his feet.

"Our strength coach had told us that he heard a story of Adam Archuleta jumping out of a pool, and everybody went crazy and thought it was unbelievable," Gilbert said. "I went out there and tried it and got it on the first try. Then I had to put it on film."

General manager Jerry Angelo had this reaction to the video: "I don't know about jumping out of the pool," he said. "The good thing is he didn't drown."

--While they were sitting out the first day of the draft, the Bears at least discussed the availability of disgruntled Pro Bowl wide receiver Anquan Boldin with the Cardinals.

"It just didn't come together," said Bears general manager Jerry Angelo, who called the deal dead. "I felt if it was going to happen, it would happen (Saturday)."

QUOTE TO NOTE: "He's just a special athlete with great ball skills. I haven't seen a corner with this kind of ball skills since (Nate) Vasher." -- Bears GM Jerry Angelo on fourth-round CB D.J. Moore of Vanderbilt.