How the Chicago Bears could fix the quarterback position after this season

The Chicago Bears need to draft a quarterback almost every season

This should be a move that should happen every season. Ryan Pace said he would do this, but since that promise has only drafted Trubisky in the first round. Our next general manager should fulfill that promise.

This isn’t to say the Bears need to draft a quarterback in the first round every season. This is actually the opposite. The Bears should be drafting a quarterback at least in the third round or later every season. But why?

Tom Brady. Dak Prescott. Russell Wilson. Those are just some stars that were drafted outside of the first and second rounds. Even besides the stars, you can find a serviceable quarterback in the later rounds as well like Kirk Cousins or Gardner Minshew.

Even if the Bears get a quarterback like Patrick Mahomes, they should still do this. For example, the Washington Football Team drafted Robert Griffin III second overall in 2012. In the fourth round, they still drafted Kirk Cousins. That panned out well as Cousins played well for them and eventually got paid as well.

Another example is the New England Patriots. When Tom Brady was suspended for the first four games of the 2016 season for the Deflategate. Everybody then got to see second-round pick Jimmy Garoppolo for two games and a third-round pick, Jacoby Brissett, for two games as well. The Patriots then flipped Brissett after two games for Phillip Dorsett, who played well for them. Brissett then got a big extension and lost his job which was a win for the Patriots.

Garoppolo then also got flipped for a second-round pick and got a big extension as well. He now has been horrible for the 49ers as Shanahan attempts to mask his many flaws. The Bears need to be doing a similar thing because you never know what could happen to your quarterback or what the late-round flier could turn into.