There’s no point in waiting anymore. There’s no reason for delaying the inevitable. Wally Pipp, Drew Bledsoe, wherever you are, eat your hearts out:
The Bears should start Justin Fields against the Cleveland Browns next Sunday.
Before Fields came on in relief of Dalton in Chicago’s 20-17 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, there were already whispers that Matt Nagy would deviate from The Plan. When anyone would see Fields full-time was unknown, the best guess even to Nagy himself. But as Bears have increased his workload in the background, challenging him more and more, Fields, predictably, has made an impression.