Wow, 253 picks in 47 hours spread over three days and the 2016 NFL Draft as well as the Draft Town experience in Chicago are history.

We’ll get to how “The Beloved” did in a minute but first there is some business I have to take care of.

Just over 5 hours in, last Thursday night at the end of the first round, I had this epiphany that I had figured Ryan Pace out, and I wrote it and broadcast it on both radio and TV.

I now know I was only about 20 percent right.

Although it isn’t really this simple, in general terms there are three categories of “Draftmeisters” in the NFL: those who chase best player available regardless of position, a group that pursues best athlete available regardless of position, and those who approach each pick looking to fill a specific need.

That final group almost always fails over time, the best athlete guys end up with a mixed bag of wins and losses and the best player guys usually have the best chances of success.

When Pace followed his 2015 first round pick of Kevin White with a trade up to take Leonard Floyd I cut loose with a Eureka, I’ve got it!

Pace is a best athlete guy, woe is me.

I was wrong and what is really interesting is I think Pace may be creating a new category that may be all his own.

There are two things you can find in every Super Bowl champion and every great team that has managed to earn playoff games year after year for an extended period of time.

Each has at least a few flat-out studs, playmakers who can change a game in a heartbeat and they do it on a consistent basis.

But those guys can he hard to find and sometimes you have to take a few chances, swing and miss on occasion and eventually hit a few home runs.

The second thing about those teams is they never have any bad football players. There are no soft spots, and they have a bunch of guys who would be the best players on the team with almost any other club.

I think that’s what Ryan Pace is trying to build here in Chicago.

His two first-round picks in Chicago were down and dirty best athletes available who were not the best players available coming out of college, where he drafted them at seven and nine in the first round.

But both have almost limitless ceilings, and if John Fox and company can get out of them all they have to give, the Bears will have two playmaking difference makers.

The rest of Pace’s 2015 picks were all arguably best players available with the exception of Tayo Fabuluje. And all of them, Eddie Goldman, Hroniss Grasu, Jeremy Langford and Adrian Amos started as rookies.

I’ve got my butt planted firmly on the fence on the Floyd pick. I could have simply filled this column with what I don’t like about him or I could have filled it with what I love.

He’s a swing for the fences and we’ll see if he goes out of the park.

But like last year, the next eight players Pace took in this draft all had significantly higher grades on them on most draft boards than those that would fit where they were drafted.

For example, the Bears had no real need for another guard or inside linebacker, but Cody Whitehair and Nick Kwiatkoski were classic attempts at best players available.

The draft is as inexact a science as you will find, and teams that can bat .500 or better can become champions.

We’ll see how Pace and his Bears have done in a couple years.

But as we put this draft to bed, I find myself feeling exactly the same way about Pace as I did going in.

I think this guy knows exactly what he’s doing. Now, for Bears’ fans sake, I sure hope these kids can play.