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Through no fault of his own—and, really, through no fault of his current coach or general manager—Justin Fields is going to take snaps under center in 2022 surrounded by what is on paper one of the NFL’s worst rosters.
This offseason, Allen Robinson escaped the Bears in free agency. James Daniels, a 24-year-old who is one of the more promising young guards in football, also moved on. Most of their ascending players with value who hit the market were plucked, with their most significant incoming contract being a defensive tackle from one of the worst run defenses in football last year (the Chargers’ Justin Jones), whose deal can be shaken out of after one year, anyway. Their roadmap thus far has been so obviously defeatist that salary cap expert Jason Fitzgerald called it a complete teardown.
