CHICAGO – Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields wore Michael Vick’s brand of cleats during his formative years as a football player. For a kid growing up in Atlanta rooting for the hometown Falcons, some of Fields’ earliest memories of the NFL were watching Vick carve up defenses with his arm and his legs while changing the perception of the quarterback position.
Sixteen years removed from Vick becoming the first quarterback in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season, Fields ran his way into elite company. With 95 yards in the Bears’ 25-20 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Fields joined Vick (2006) and Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson (2019, 2020) as the third quarterback to reach the 1,000-yard rushing mark in a single season.