Bears QB Justin Fields is all business at rookie minicamp
Justin Fields hasn’t taken a regular-season snap, but the excitement surrounding his potential as franchise quarterback of the Chicago Bears has been hard to temper. And that’s after just one rookie minicamp practice.
Fields has been all business at Chicago’s three-day rookie minicamp, where he’s been putting in the work to learn this offense and help put himself in a good position to compete for the starting quarterback job. It’s something that his rookie teammates are already noticing.
“He’s 100 percent about business,” offensive tackle Larry Borom told reporters Saturday. “It’s not fun and games when we’re on the field. It’s definitely 100 percent business and he wants to do the job at the highest level that he can. I try to echo that with my play and it works out.
“It sets the tone for the whole offense. If you see your quarterback, he’s not messing around, it makes everyone else want to work 10 times harder.”
Many have taken Fields’ serious demeanor to mean something entirely different than what it is, as many other fan bases joked that Fields wasn’t happy to be in Chicago following his reaction to being drafted by the Bears.
But, as Fields said on draft night, he’s not about talk. He wants to get to work and let his play do the talking, which is exactly what he’s been doing at rookie minicamp. And it’s something that his teammates are gravitating toward.
“Definitely, he gives out (a serious) demeanor on the field,” running back Khalil Herbert added. “I think guys gravitate towards it and it spreads to guys in the locker room. When we’re out there and he’s locked in, dialed in, making sure we’ve got the calls, got the plays, got the cadence. And it definitely helps, I feel like it runs a lot smoother, knowing what we gotta do, how to do it. To have that kind of clean, crisp mindset when we attack the line of scrimmage.”
Fields garnered praise from media members in attendance and his head coach, Matt Nagy, who was impressed by his mechanics, accuracy and his composure in his first NFL practice.
While the Bears have preached patience with Fields’ development, you have to believe — if Fields proves he’s ready — that he’s going to make it a lot tougher to ride the plan of sitting him behind Andy Dalton.
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