“This is probably one of my favorite human beings,” Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles said of Travis Bell. “He is a special person. I didn’t want him to leave after his 30 visit and he didn’t want to leave either.'
There was too much about Travis Bell’s makeup and hustle that drew Poles to the player, so the Bears selected him in the seventh round with the No. 218 pick, adding a developmental player from the FCS level to the position group.“This is probably one of my favorite human beings,” Poles said of the Kennesaw State product. “He is a special person. I didn’t want him to leave after his 30 visit and he didn’t want to leave either. There’s something different about this guy.
Kennesaw State coach Brian Bohannon described a similar affinity for Bell and what he meant to the school’s program. Bohannon spoke to the Tribune about the defensive tackle’s development and prospects for a professional career. Here’s that interview, edited for clarity.Note: This is part of a series of conversations with the college position coaches of this year’s Bears draft picks.Travis came out of somewhat the inner-city of Montgomery, Ala.
He was actually redshirted his first year. He was on the offensive field with me the whole time as part of the defensive scout team. And you could see the ability. He just wasn’t ready to play. Put it this way, you got a raw kid who hadn’t been in any structure and hadn’t been in an environment like this, and it took a little bit for him to get used to it. He struggled with it at times and it just took a little while for him to adjust. We felt like he had a chance to be a good player.
All of a sudden things started to click for him and he figured it out. I felt like he had a chance at the next level. I didn’t really know what that meant because beauty is in the eye of the beholder sometimes. You don’t know what the people are seeing. We felt like we had a shot. His stock rose this past season. The Cincinnati game this season was big for him. That just put him at a place where they get a better idea evaluating him. And then his pro day, he killed it. Everything started adding up to say not only did we feel confident he was going to get picked up, but it got to a point where we felt he was going to be drafted. I don’t think we fully know the impression he made with the Bears. We know who he is, but we didn’t know the details of his visit there.
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