Hoge: NFL remains positive on Fields despite bumpy 2021 originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
LOS ANGELES — Separate from the actual game, the Super Bowl tends to be a great place to gather and sort through opinions on all sorts of NFL topics.
Not surprisingly, after one of the most hyped up rookie quarterback classes delivered very mixed results in 2021, there were plenty of opinions thrown around in Los Angeles about Bears quarterback Justin Fields.
Interestingly, nearly all of those opinions were positive.
This seemed notable because that was definitely not the case in Minneapolis for Super Bowl LII, following Mitchell Trubisky’s rookie season. There were certainly people offering reasons for hope in early 2018, but there was also an overwhelming sense of hesitation when it came to the former Bears quarterback.
In Fields’ case, two prevailing thoughts kept coming up last week: 1) Justin Fields is very, very talented, and 2) The Bears did not put him in a position to have…
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