Justin Fields has taken quickly to the role of team leader on the Chicago Bears. Unlike last year this time, when Fields was a rookie who former coach Matt Nagy said wouldn’t have an opportunity to unseat veteran quarterback Andy Dalton for the starting job, the Bears are Fields’ team in 2022. And he’s acting like it.
In a recent interview with Bleacher Report, Fields came to the defense of Chicago’s wide receivers. It’s a position group that’s been blasted all offseason by analysts who think the Bears haven’t done enough to provide Fields with the weapons he needs to succeed in his second year. What matters most, however, is what Fields thinks.
“We don’t have an Odell [Beckham Jr.] or a Cooper Kupp on our team, but at the end of the day I think if everybody is on their P’s and Q’s, and we’re on top of everything and not making mistakes, the players we have right now are good enough,” Fields told Bleacher Report. “The front office thinks that, too. The fans outside of the facility, they don’t know what’s going on at practice. Just because we don’t have a big-name guy, doesn’t mean those guys aren’t talented. I have plenty of confidence in myself and my teammates that we’re going to get the job done.”
