The Soldier Field crowd rose to its feet when Justin Fields finally, mercifully, took the field to start the second half Saturday. He might have been the only person in the huddle the fans recognized.
Rookie Larry Borom was about to play his first snap at left tackle in an NFL game setting. To his right were linemen Adam Redmond, Arlington Hambright, Lachavious Simmons and Dieter Eiselen. The five men standing between face of the franchise and injury had a combined one NFL start to their name — Hambright started one game as a rookie last year.
On the first play of the fourth quarter, it looked like the Bears’ blocking problems got their rookie quarterback decapitated.