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It’s a new era for Bears quarterbacks.
Again.
When the Bears traded Justin Fields to the Steelers for a 2024 conditional sixth-round pick — it can turn into a fourth-rounder — on Saturday, they cleared the way for USC star Caleb Williams to be the No. 1 overall pick next month.
The trade is an all-too-familiar feeling of failure for a franchise whose last great quarterback, Sid Luckman, was born 105 years ago, But it’s a novel emotion, too — Williams figures to be the first quarterback the Bears have ever taken first overall, the karmic response to losing the Terry Bradshaw coin toss in 1970 and the result of a bold trade of the 2023 No.