In the last 20 years, the Bears have started 21 quarterbacks, which, all by itself, is telling. Look deeper, though. That list includes a Super Bowl winner (Nick Foles), a 38-year-old career backup who got one game (Todd Collins), the second pick in an NFL draft (Mitch Trubisky) and a gunslinger often photographed by paparazzi (Jay Cutler). Only five of those signal-callers surpassed 4,000 passing yards while playing for Chicago, and that list—Kyle Orton, Rex Grossman, Justin Fields, Trubisky and Cutler—isn’t laden with elite players. Cutler might be the only one. He might not even qualify, depending on the evaluation standard of “elite.”
Somebody should draw those names on a Da Bears fan’s T-shirt. They’re approaching Browns quarterback territory.
