I know this is a few days old, but I just had surgery so I’m just sitting around and this caught my eye.
How do you justify considering his college completion percentage to hold more weight than his pro completion percentage outside of being a homer or wishful thinking? Even with the Bears being able to add more talent with their draft capital and thru free agency with their massive cap space, they still won’t hold the massive talent gap between teams as Fields had playing at OSU. He also likely had a significant gap between coaching, scheme and resources compared to many of the teams played in college that he won’t in the NFL.
Fields wasn’t more of a pass first QB while at OSU (didn’t run as much at Georgia but hard to put much stock into about 80 combined attempts as a backup across 12 games) compared to what he’s done with the Bears. In fact, he has less rushes per game (and essentially the same amount of throws per rush) in the NFL than college - he’s just been more productive when running in the NFL.
Rush/Game:
OSU - 9.91
Bears - 8.59
Pass Attempt/Rush:
OSU - 2.66
Bears - 2.53
I’m a Packers fan (and most definitely biased in the other direction), so I’m obviously hoping he’s terrible in the long run and the Bears waste these draft picks trying to building around Fields. Heck, I’d love for him to show some unsustainable progress this year that leads the Bears to sign him to a massive, long term contract that blows up in their face.