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How Justin Fields can move from potential to winner by passing more

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Bears quarterback Justin Fields warms up last month.

Bears quarterback Justin Fields’ taste in quarterbacks is evolving.

‘‘The younger I was, the more I was into dual-threat guys,’’ he said. ‘‘The older I got, I started to look more at pocket guys.’’

That’s what Fields believes himself to be — and what the Bears desperately need him to be in his third season.

‘‘That’s what a quarterback is,’’ he told the Sun-Times last month. ‘‘A quarterback is a guy that can throw the ball, a guy that can get the ball to his playmakers when needed, when the pocket breaks down.