With more draft picks, Chicago Bears general manager Phil Emery might have added a quarterback on Saturday.

But with only six picks – after adding one via a trade down in the fifth round – the Bears were not able to achieve that goal. They have lined up a local quarterback for rookie minicamp in two weeks, thought. According to an NFL source, Jimmy Coy of St. Xavier will participate in the three-day orientation for rookies on a tryout basis. Right now it is believed he will be the only quarterback at the rookie minicamp.

Coy, who played in high school at Maine South, spent the last two seasons at St. Xavier. Previously, he played two seasons at El Camino Junior College in Torrance, Calif., and attended Valdosta State but did not play there.

Coy, 6-foot, 210 pounds, was tops in NAIA in 2011 with 4,261 yards passing and 42 touchdowns. This past year, Coy passed for 3,427 yards and 35 touchdowns with 10 interceptions in helping lead the team to an 11-2 record.

“Going into the draft it was more of a question, would we accumulate enough picks to go in that direction (drafting a quarterback)?” Emery said. “With five picks and the number of players that we wanted to add and the positions we wanted to add them in, I don’t know how practical that was. Again, it had to be the right value for the team. Things would have to line up perfect to take a quarterback with five picks. We accumulated more picks at the end. The run of quarterbacks had stopped at that point. But I’ll also tell you that given a player on the board, the value of that player on the board, where we were able to pick him relative to the current strength of our quarterback roster, we felt very good about where we were at.”

The Bears have three quarterbacks on the roster and Matt Blanchard, an undrafted free agent from Wisconsin-Whitewater, earned a contract as a tryout player in minicamp last year. The current situation puts Josh McCown in a solid spot to be the backup behind starter Jay Cutler, but Emery said the team is not done adding veteran free agents. Whether or not they seek an experienced passer to challenge McCown remains to be seen.

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