INDIANAPOLIS—We’re here and ready to roll for six long nights in Naptown, and we’re just getting started in digging through some whispers that’ll run rampant here in the coming days …
• Chicago Bears GM Ryan Poles did the right thing by his franchise on Tuesday by leaving everything on the table in telling the media that they haven’t closed the door on anything yet. This way, calls will keep coming on Justin Fields, and on the first pick.
In the end, the idea, if I had to climb inside Poles’s head on this, would be to get the clearest view of all options before executing a plan that’s nearing its final stages. And there were a couple signs on Tuesday that it is, indeed, reaching those final stages. First, so openly talking about trading Fields—and “doing right by Justin”—is not something you’re doing if the plan is to keep him entrenched as the unquestioned starter. Second, Poles acknowledged that the right thing for everyone would be to have closure on Fields sooner than later.
