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1st-and-10: Keeping Justin Fields healthy is Job 1 for Bears in 2022

This is a huge ask for the Bears, but here goes: Any chance Justin Fields can start all 17 games this season?

The Bears’ 2022 rebuilding season is all about modest expectations, and the potential franchise quarterback going an entire season without getting injured or benched actually is setting the bar pretty low.

Over the last 10 years, more than half the starting quarterbacks in the NFL have started every game each season (16.8 — including starters who sit out the final week of the regular season before the playoffs).

Obviously, Fields has to show some development in Luke Getsy’s offense, but first things first.