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GamePlan: Matt Nagy Discusses How Justin Fields Earned the Starting QB Job

The Bears' rookie showed growth in practice and during games that proved he was ready. Plus, the rest of our Week 5 preview.

There was a point in the Bears’ Week 3 game in Cleveland where it was clear, to the coaches at least, that first-round quarterback Justin Fields’s anticipation was just a tick behind where it needed to be. A Browns corner had moved tight to the line to press veteran burner Marquise Goodwin. The corner got on top of him, and did a decent job of disrupting his route, but Goodwin would eventually shake loose of the jam and the defender.