The place will Justin Fields play in 2024? Based on the most recent mock drafts from ESPN and Professional Soccer Focus, it will not be in Chicago.
Each ESPN’s Jordan Reid and PFF’s Trevor Sikkema have the Bears taking USC quarterback Caleb Williams No. 1 general, which might pave the best way for Chicago to commerce Fields, who it chosen No. 11 general within the 2021 NFL Draft.
The previous Ohio State quarterback from 2019-20, Fields had his finest season as a professional in 2023. He set career-highs in completion share (61.4 %) and passing yards (2,562), whereas additionally having the bottom interception (2.4 %) and sack charges (10.6 %) of his profession.
He is proven enchancment each season and may be higher positioned to assist the Bears attain the playoffs in 2024, however Chicago should think about its long-term future. Does it consider Fields can have a greater professional profession than Williams or North Carolina’s Drake Maye, one other quarterback prospect who may doubtlessly go No. 1 general?
In that case, then it ought to commerce the No. 1 decide. But when Chicago thinks Williams or Maye raises the crew’s ceiling, then Week 18 was doubtless Fields’ closing sport as Bears quarterback.
He ought to have a robust worth on the commerce market, with groups together with the Falcons, Giants, Raiders and Vikings all in want of a quarterback and, not like the Commanders and Patriots, not able to draft one among 2024’s prime QB prospects.
Both manner, Chicago is in an envious place with two top-10 picks within the upcoming draft. If it retains Fields, the Bears may doubtlessly add one of many prime vast receiver prospects within the class – Ohio State’s Marvin Harrison Jr., LSU’s Malik Nabers or Washington’s Rome Odunze – in addition to both Georgia tight finish Brock Bowers, who’s obtained comparisons to 49ers tight finish George Kittle, or one of many draft’s elite edge prospects, resembling UCLA’s Laiatu Latu or Alabama’s Dallas Turner.
If the most recent mock drafts are appropriate and the Bears choose Williams, they will nonetheless be capable of add sufficient expertise round him that they may contend for a division title in 2024.
In fact, for a franchise that infamously handed on two-time MVP Patrick Mahomes for 2020 Nickelodeon Helpful Participant Mitchell Trubisky through the 2017 NFL Draft, we should not blindly anticipate the Bears to get this determination proper.
It doesn’t matter what Chicago decides, it will likely be second-guessed the whole offseason.
