Rookie quarterback Justin Fields will be the team's starter moving forward, coach Matt Nagy said Wednesday.
Fields, the No. 11 pick in this past year's NFL draft, opened the season as the team's backup but had started each of Chicago's past two games with Andy Dalton out with an injury.
Nagy had previously said that Dalton would remain as the team's starter when he recovered from his knee injury, but Wednesday's announcement appears to be a reversal of that line of thinking as Nagy said that Dalton was expected to be a full participant in practice.