The Chicago Bears hold the top pick for the 2024 draft, after an earlier trade with bottom dwellers Carolina, and will look to pick up the best of the best.
This means current quarterback Justin Fields could be heading off to another woods, with the Bears missing out on picking up CJ Stroud and Bryce Young.
They will surely go for a QB, especially considering how well Strouds is going for the Texans.
“I mean, life isn’t fair,” Fields told Josh Schrock of NBC Sports Chicago. “I’m just focused on what I can control, and the rest is in God’s hands.
“Wherever, if I’m here next year, if I’m not, football doesn’t define who I am as a person. My happiness will still be in the same place, will still be in God. . .. I know that God’s got me, and I’m going to be good.
“I’m very blessed in the position I am in, and I think a million people would love to be in the position I am right now. So really just, I’m not taking that for granted and just taking each and every moment I have every day up here to the fullest.”
Likely QB contenders are Trojans Caleb Williams, North Carolina’s Drake Maye and Oregon’s Bo Nix.
Fields was drafted 11th overall in 2021 and knows how the business of recruiting works, so admits there is not much he can do but play his best, have fun and pick up valued experience.
“I’ve had moments in my life to where I’ve wanted things to happen that didn’t go that way, and it ended up going another way and it worked out better than I ever could have imagined.
“That’s really why I just don’t stress about stuff that happens, and just controlling what I control and like I said earlier just being the best person I can be and striving to be the best player I can be.”
He knows he will probably not be in Chicago next season, despite him enjoying a decent year.
He has a career high completion percentage of 64.4 and a passer rating of 92.3.
These are top numbers, and he will definitely find himself at another franchise, lining up against the Bears and their number one drafted superstar.
