The Pittsburgh Steelers fetched QB Justin Fields for just a future conditional sixth-round pick in March. While the Chicago Bears already determined to move on with first-overall pick Caleb Williams, you very rarely see a top-15 quarterback command so little in trade compensation at age 25. The price alone suggests a player with more than his share of struggles.
And Emmanuel Acho argues that many of his struggles in Chicago were of his own making. Many of Fields’ defenders trash the Bears for being an unstable organization, and that’s certainly valid. But a franchise quarterback saves a lot of people’s jobs.