While most people expect the Chicago Bears to move on from Justin Fields as their starting quarterback and select Caleb Williams with the No. 1 overall pick, one prominent NFL insider seems to be expecting something else.
In his Football Morning in America column on Monday, Peter King speculated that the Chicago Bears will actually keep Justin Fields and trade away the No. 1 overall pick.
“I suppose the Bears are going to trade the top pick. I know nothing, but that seems to be the way the wind is blowing. What I say: The Bears could keep Justin Fields (and should), and trade the first pick down once or twice, and build the kind of supporting cast a team needs to contend,” King wrote on Monday.
Part of the reason King is speculating this is simply due to the return that the Bears could get for the pick.
Suppose GM Ryan Poles traded the top pick down one spot to Washington (which would take Caleb Williams), and got the second pick, a second-round pick and a 2025 first-round pick in return. Then suppose Poles traded the second pick to Atlanta at eight, and the Falcons picked one of the other quarterbacks. In return, Chicago gets the eighth pick, Atlanta’s second-round pick, and first- and second-round picks next year,” King wrote.
“For moving down seven picks in the first round, the Bears could end up with nine picks in the first two rounds of the next two drafts. Instant infrastructure.”
We’ll have to see whether or not that’s what the Bears try to do.
