The Chicago Bears and Quarterbacks: a Retrospective

Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images Last week I made a spreadsheet of every quarterback the Chicago Bears could have drafted since 2005, when the Green Bay Packers took Aaron Rodgers at 24th overall while Chicago took this guy instead at pick number 4.

(A disclaimer: I make a lot of spreadsheets.)

Anyway, the Bears quite famously have never had a good quarterback unless you count Sid Luckman, who played most of his career in the 1940s. I think this is mostly viewed as bad luck, but it’s striking how little the team has invested in the position. You can say that it’s excusable that they didn’t pick Rodgers in the 2005 draft, as he was a project and a bunch of teams passed on him, except for the…