Many people have been pining for Justin Fields to start in the NFL since he was still a quarterback at Harrison High School in Georgia, but especially so since the beginning of 2021 draft season. Once thought to be a 1a-1b type with Trevor Lawrence, the pre-draft process was not as kind to Fields as it was to three of his positional classmates, at least as it came to NFL teams.
Though there was a massive outpouring of support for Fields on social media, decrying any anti-Fields sentiment as flawed, more than 10 teams passed on him in the 2021 NFL Draft.