By most reasonable measures, the 2021 NFL Draft seems to have been a success for the Chicago Bears. None of it really matters until they win games on a football field, of course, but Chicago came away from the draft with two prospects widely considered to be Top 25 picks, and along the way they seemed to have overcome what feels like a decades-long aversion to investing heavily in the offensive line and the quarterback at the same time.
This is where it’s customary to offer qualifiers. Fields is simply a potential franchise quarterback.