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Justin Fields to the Chicago Bears might not be the best thing to happen

The sharp-eyed Chris Simms has in my opinion done the best job of getting into the bits and bytes of why Justin Fields’ mechanics could easily make him fail as an NFL quarterback. What Fields has over Trey Lance is he has played in 34 games to Trey Lance’s 17. I am not predicting Fields will fail but that I agree with Simms that his bust potential is the highest of these five quarterbacks. This, logically, makes him someone the Bears should avoid as their QB of the future.

In choosing a quarterback in the draft, all the details are absolutely important. So here are the details regarding Fields that Simms has provided us. He says in this video, Fields’ footwork can be all over the place. This means his feet all too often are too wide, too close, and pointing in the wrong direction when he has time to point them in the right direction.

Bears should be familiar with how poor footwork ruined Mitch Trubisky’s ability to consistently be accurate on longer passes. Presumably, Pace will have learned his lesson that just because a quarterback is accurate in the short-to-medium range that it is foolhardy to assume he will learn to be consistently accurate with deeper passes too.

In a segment ranking offensive tackles early in this video, Chris Simms also pointed out that Fields shoulders are stiff when switching directions. He relies almost entirely on his arm for accuracy and not his shoulders when changing directions before throwing the ball. Again relying on his arm and not getting his feet and or his shoulders right as often as possible sabotaged Trubisky often in his career.

Given all this, It does not make sense to me that Pace would gamble his career yet again on another quarterback who has big issues with his mechanics especially footwork mechanics.