CHICAGO — Sometimes, when you’re talking about a rookie quarterback in whom you’ve largely invested your immediate and long-term future, you need to take a step or two back and realize: If the growing pains are merely a dull ache, and not a sharp agony, then maybe you’re doing all right.
That’s what Sam Darnold was Sunday in a 24-10 loss to the Bears: He was all right. He was 13-for-25 passing, he threw a touchdown pass (capping a drive on which, by rights, he probably should have been intercepted), and he built a QB rating of 75.