When Mitchell Trubisky lines up under center tonight to start the 4th Bears preseason game of 2017, he will join a curious list of Bears signal-callers who have started the team’s annual Browns preseason game.
The Bears have played 13 of these Browns games, starting in 2004 — five times, the starter was getting final reps before starting Week 1. In other cases, the starter didn’t even make the 53-man roster.
Here, now, is the definitive ranking of those 13 performances (key: the performances, not the quarterbacks), along with a rundown of the guys who backed them up.