Byron Pringle has spent his NFL career living a wide receiver’s dream — for four seasons in Kansas City, Patrick Mahomes was his quarterback.
Pringle’s new passer — Bears second-year player Justin Fields — isn’t Mahomes. No one is. But the team’s newest wide receiver thinks that Fields, like Mahomes before him, will enable him to get open.
“I see [Fields] as an elite quarterback,” Pringle said Sunday shortly after the Bears officially signed him. “He keeps his legs alive and he definitely knows how to extend plays. And that is something that I did in Kansas City — when the play broke down, I always tried to find, get in the quarterback’s vision.