You’d have figured that Ryan Pace would not be the one to pick the Chicago Bears’ next quarterback.
Pace, the Bears’ general manager, famously moved up to take Mitchell Trubisky in the 2017 draft. He passed on Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson, as everyone knows by now. It was a career-defining gamble. It did not work.
By the end of last season, when Trubisky tanked and the Bears fell apart too, it seemed Pace might not keep his job. He did. And he’s acting like a GM who has one last chance to save his job, including a trade for quarterback Nick Foles on Wednesday.