The Bears went to their backup quarterback twice this season, and both times it immediately rendered the game pointless.
First there was the fiasco against the Jets in which they acted as though starting Justin Fields was a legitimate possibility all the way until the morning of the game, then Trevor Siemian strained an oblique muscle in warmups and took himself out of consideration. That paved the way for practice-squad callup Nathan Peterman to make his first start since 2018.
