At this point basically everyone on earth who cares about the Bears enough to know who Tory Taylor is is also mad about him. "The Bears wasted a 4th round pick" is the rallying cry of basically everybody from reddit , to Forbes writing him off as "just another punter" , to PFF giving our golden Aussie a bottom-6 grade for most of the season. Even beloved BWF-endorsed stats warlock Jonathan Wood labeled him as a " massive bust ": And even conversations among the most deranged of Bears fans have resulted in messages like this: Now, while I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like Tory Taylor's stats are lying and he actually is the secret best punter in NFL history, I am gonna comment on the pervasive talking point that taking a punter in the fourth round at all was an indefensible misuse of draft capital. Because it wasn't. It isn't. Taking a punter in the fourth round is a perfectly reasonable use of draft capital if he's a top tier pun...