Yahoo Sports · Jun 18, 2021
Why Bears rookie QB Justin Fields will be made to wait before taking over
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — If Justin Fields is indeed the Chicago Bears’ quarterback savior, the man who can give this 101-year-old franchise its first legit star QB since Sid Luckman (who died eight months before Fields was born), he’s gonna have to wait.
And we must wait, too.
The trade up for Fields in Round 1 of the 2021 NFL draft felt like the kind of thing even the most optimistic Bears fan wouldn’t have gotten their hopes up for. Even in a five-QB first round, the Bears were picking far back (No. 20 overall), weren’t teeming with assets to move up, and had free-agent signing Andy Dalton as insurance if the chips didn’t fall right.