As second-year Bears GM Ryan Poles and I worked through the ins and outs of a trade that’ll help define his time, for better or worse, in Chicago on Thursday night, a simple question popped in my head. I knew neither he nor coach Matt Eberflus had definitively told Justin Fields that he’d be their quarterback in 2023 before trading the pick.
So I wondered, aloud, whether Poles had done so since. He laughed.
“I think my actions have said enough,” he said.
