When Bears coach Matt Nagy was asked after rookie mini-camp in May if quarterback Justin Fields will get a chance to prove he’s ready to start sooner than the Bears think, he basically said, “We’ll know it when we see it.”
But it didn’t answer the question: Will he give Fields the opportunity for them to see it? If Fields is buried behind Andy Dalton and Nick Foles in training camp practices and the preseason, would Fields even get the chance to open their eyes?
It’s still unlikely that Fields will be in a dogfight for the starting job in training camp — let alone the Week 1 starter.