Hypothetically speaking, if we still had our 1st round pick and ended up with the first pick..

[Teddy2SuperBowlHeartBreaks]

Would you want to draft Caleb Williams/Drake Maye and move on from Bryce? The Bears were in this scenario last year. I guess they could have taken Stroud and moved on from Fields but I’d say taking our idiotic deal was probably best for them. I would probably trade down and get more weapons for Bryce.

[tukafan21]

lol is this a real question?

They’d take a QB, re-set the clock on the rookie contract and trade Bryce for whatever we could get, would be the biggest no brainer decision of all time.

[t96]

Who cares, we don't have the pick. And we still need to see the next 11 games to even begin to evaluate Bryce

[ForJimmy]

I would lean draft Caleb Williams, but if some team offers us a stupid trade (which they probably would) then it would be hard to turn down.  Fill our roster holes and give Young another chance makes the most sense.  

[*FreeFua*]

13 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

lol is this a real question?

They’d take a QB, re-set the clock on the rookie contract and trade Bryce for whatever we could get, would be the biggest no brainer decision of all time.

I mean you’d think it would be a no brainer but look at Chicago. Ryan Poles is going to get bailed out big time due to our incompetence. 

Fields clearly ain’t it and he just passed on these guys. There are a lot of bad teams this year and there’s still 11 games left but if Chicago misses out on Williams and Maye by a game then that’s a massive mistake by Poles.

I got hammered for suggesting Chicago do just that because I too thought it would be a no brainer to reset rookie clock and try again 

[tukafan21]

2 minutes ago, *FreeFua* said:

I mean you’d think it would be a no brainer but look at Chicago. Ryan Poles is going to get bailed out big time due to our incompetence. 

Fields clearly ain’t it and he just passed on these guys. There are a lot of bad teams this year and there’s still 11 games left but if Chicago misses out on Williams and Maye by a game then that’s a massive mistake by Poles.

I got hammered for suggesting Chicago do just that because I too thought it would be a no brainer to reset rookie clock and try again 

The difference is that if you combined this year's QB draft class with next years, not a single analyst would put Bryce or Stroud above either Williams or Maye.

The question marks around the QBs in this year's draft are the only reason keeping Fields and trading the pick was even an option, in any year there was an unquestioned #1 prospect with elite potential, the Bears take the QB and trade Fields.

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13 minutes ago, *FreeFua* said:

I mean you’d think it would be a no brainer but look at Chicago. Ryan Poles is going to get bailed out big time due to our incompetence. 

Fields clearly ain’t it and he just passed on these guys. There are a lot of bad teams this year and there’s still 11 games left but if Chicago misses out on Williams and Maye by a game then that’s a massive mistake by Poles.

I got hammered for suggesting Chicago do just that because I too thought it would be a no brainer to reset rookie clock and try again 

These QBs weren’t going to succeed in Chicago. It made the most sense to get more assets for their pick to build a team and they got a LT, #1 WR, #2 Corner for it so far plus they’ll have a chance at Maye or Williams in this upcoming draft. 
 

Caleb is the highest rated draft QB since Lawrence who was the highest since Luck. I wouldn’t risk passing on him. The QBs in this class had significantly more questions around them than he does. I don’t like the kid as I think he’s a bit of an ass but I don’t see any way you trade away the Williams pick if you have it. 

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10 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

The difference is that if you combined this year's QB draft class with next years, not a single analyst would put Bryce or Stroud above either Williams or Maye.

The question marks around the QBs in this year's draft are the only reason keeping Fields and trading the pick was even an option, in any year there was an unquestioned #1 prospect with elite potential, the Bears take the QB and trade Fields.

100%. And because they did that they now have a franchise left tackle to block the blind side and DJ Moore at the 1 outside for Caleb to walk into. 
 

I love Stroud. I thought he was the best QB in last years class and to me it wasn’t that close. However, Williams for sure gets another grade than any QB in any recent class, even over Lawrence, to me. I don’t think a QB will be this highly ranked going into the draft since Luck. And Maye , to me, is in the same conversation for me as Stroud and I would have put him above Young and Richardson and the others for sure if they were all in the same class. 

[Manna]

If we still had that pick and Fitt was still around? He'd trade down. 

[*FreeFua*]

16 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

The difference is that if you combined this year's QB draft class with next years, not a single analyst would put Bryce or Stroud above either Williams or Maye.

The question marks around the QBs in this year's draft are the only reason keeping Fields and trading the pick was even an option, in any year there was an unquestioned #1 prospect with elite potential, the Bears take the QB and trade Fields.

So much has to go wrong to end up with a top 2 pick. There is no way Poles was honestly gambling on that but he is going to get bailed out 

And we’ll see about Caleb. I just watched him stink it up against ND. He trust his arm way too much. Some are beginning to wonder just how much of his game translates to the NFL

[tukafan21]

14 minutes ago, *FreeFua* said:

So much has to go wrong to end up with a top 2 pick. There is no way Poles was honestly gambling on that but he is going to get bailed out 

And we’ll see about Caleb. I just watched him stink it up against ND. He trust his arm way too much. Some are beginning to wonder just how much of his game translates to the NFL

He wasn't gambling on ending up with another Top 2 pick, he was gambling on Fields being an elite QB if you gave him some help, like Moore and the OT that they drafted with our pick.

He's likely going to lose that gamble, but in the end, he'll end up as the big winner, especially if they miraculously end up with one of the QBs and Harrison.

Williams/Maye with Moore, Harrison, Kmet would be potentially nasty offense for years to come.

[BrisbanePanther]

20 minutes ago, Manna said:

If we still had that pick and Fitt was still around? He'd trade down. 

Don't know if he actually would, but he would spend all off-season trying to fake us all out like he could and he'd be the only one looking like a dope.

[ECHornet]

The haul you can get for trading out of #1 this year will likely set a new standard. 
 

We have a QB but need so much help in other areas. Trade back would be my vote. 
 

Have Tepper throw Drake 10mil to stay in school one more year in case Bryce doesn’t blossom by the end of year 2. Ha

[*FreeFua*]

2 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

He wasn't gambling on ending up with another Top 2 pick, he was gambling on Fields being an elite QB if you gave him some help, like Moore and the OT that they drafted with our pick.

He's likely going to lose that gamble, but in the end, he'll end up as the big winner, especially if they miraculously end up with one of the QBs and Harrison.

Williams/Maye with Moore, Harrison, Kmet would be potentially nasty offense for years to come.

He’s going to get extremely lucky. 

Teams like Arizona and Tampa on paper looked like they’d be going 0-17. Denver is an utter mess right now and might not win another. 

I figured at worst this would be similar to when the Bears traded for Fields and the Giants ended up with picks 5 and 7. If that’s what Chicago ended up with imo given they’d need a QB that was a massive mistake by Poles. Now luckily for Poles it looks like they’re going to do much better.