Drafting football players is as much art as it is science. Especially with quarterbacks, specifically in the first round. Those players are supposed to transform your franchise for the better. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks thinking about how the Bears got here with Justin Fields.
During the 2021 NFL Draft, many of us were thinking: How in the world will Ryan Pace mess this up? The Bears stumbling into the playoffs a few months earlier was more of a fluke than by design. The team was stuck in neutral. Mitch Trubisky wasn’t the answer. That draft looked top-heavy. If you wanted a quarterback, you’d have to move up pretty high to land Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Trey Lance or Justin Fields. With the Bears picking 20th, it looked impossible.
