If you think the Bears’ 2022 season is about developing quarterback Justin Fields and still losing enough games to get a top-five draft pick to acquire a difference-making receiver — like Ja’Marr Chase for Joe Burrow or Jaylen Waddle for Tua Tagovailoa — the Bears’ rebuild is on schedule.
Fields, after a rough first month, has taken small steps as a passer and giant leaps as a runner to establish himself as a quarterback to build around. And the 3-8 Bears currently have the No. 3 pick in the draft — a spot they can maintain regardless of Fields’ playing status in the remaining seven games.
