NFL Draft information: Bears commerce quarterback Justin Fields to Steelers

In information that won’t essentially have an effect on the Seattle Seahawks however is unquestionably related to the highest of the NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears have lastly despatched quarterback Justin Fields to a different crew.

The 2021 first-round decide has been dealt to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the place he’ll presumably be backing up Russell Wilson this upcoming season. Chicago is simply getting a conditional decide in 2025.

Fields should play at the least 51 % of the snaps, which implies that he’d have to begin a number of video games over Wilson to achieve that mark.

This basically provides away that the Bears will probably be taking Caleb Williams with the highest decide of subsequent month’s NFL Draft. It was cheap to suppose that this was at all times going to occur as soon as the decide they acquired from the Carolina Panthers was numero uno, however there was some thought that the Bears may commerce out of the highest spot and provides Fields yet one more season because the starter. Even when they moved on from Fields, the intrigue was how a lot his worth could be within the commerce market. It appears like he wasn’t value a heck of lots.

To maintain this vaguely Seahawks-related, would you’ve gotten slightly completed the commerce the Steelers simply pulled off or caught to what the crew truly did by getting Sam Howell from the Washington Commanders in trade for decide swaps? I suppose it largely is determined by how you are feeling in regards to the respective skills of Fields and Howell.