There just isn’t a way for it to make sense to me.
It’s obviously a near ideal scenario if Justin Fields had shown out this year and proven he could be the guy with some consistency, but he undeniably didn’t do that.
I know you think I just hate Fields like PAMan (who is mostly just trolling you) but I was fully supportive of trading the top pick a year ago with the idea that Fields would finally show he could be a consistently good passer in the NFL. He just didn’t. The jump I expected, that you sold all last year and off-season here, did not materialize.
The Bears have never had the top pick in the SB era until last year. Now they’ve had two in a row. The idea of passing on a top QB twice to keep a guy who just hasn’t actually been very good as a quarterback yet is really, really frustrating.