Bears need to go all-in and trade up for Justin Fields to right Mitchell Trubisky debacle

The Chicago Bears need a quarterback and Justin Fields is the signal-caller that can right a number of wrongs for the franchise desperately in need of help.

Ryan Pace, please do whatever it takes to get Justin Fields in the NFL Draft.

The Chicago Bears general manager famously missed on Mitchell Trubisky after trading up to take the North Carolina quarterback in a class that featured future Hall of Famers Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson. Meanwhile, Trubisky is now with the Buffalo Bills on a one-year deal after busting with the Bears.

Pace has a chance to make up for that draft bust that would have cost many others their job if he can find a way to draft Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields.

After two standout years with the Buckeyes where Fields was the Heisman runner-up in 2019 before leading Ohio State to the National Championship Game in 2020 after a six-touchdown game in the Sugar Bowl win vs. Trevor Lawrence and Clemson, Fields is dripping with potential.

However, for some reason, Fields is believed to be slipping in the eyes of NFL talent evaluators. Once thought to be a slam dunk for the No. 2 pick behind Lawrence, Fields may not be the fifth quarterback taken in the draft and may have a long wait before he hears his name called when the draft begins on Thursday night.

Chicago Bears have to do whatever it takes to get Justin Fields

Pace and Bears head coach Matt Nagy can’t go into the season with Andy Dalton and Nick Foles as the two quarterbacks in a must-win season to preserve their jobs. I don’t want to hear the argument that the Bears ownership won’t allow Pace to mortgage the future to get Fields, because if you don’t trust your general manager to pick the quarterback, you shouldn’t have kept him on the job in the first place.

If they are in this job, they have to be emboldened to do what they think is the best move.

Pace has not been afraid to trade up in the draft, for better or worse,  more often for worse, but he can totally redeem himself if he trades the No. 20 pick, their second round pick and next year’s first round pick to move into the top 10 to get Fields.

Just how high Pace needs to get remains to be seen, but the No. 4 pick where the Atlanta Falcons are on the clock is where the draft starts.

The first three picks are going to be quarterbacks, but the Falcons are believed to be eyeing Kyle Pitts. If the Falcons take the Florida tight end, the Bears are next looking at No. 7 where the Detroit Lions are on the clock and could be looking to move back to acquire more picks.

The Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos and No. 8 and No. 9 could be targeting quarterbacks despite the presence of Sam Darnold and Drew Lock on those teams, respectively. Trading up to No. 7 won’t be as expensive as No. 4 but trading with division rivals is not that common, but either way, it’s not going to be cheap.

But it is most definitely worth it.

There is no position more important in sports than quarterback. For a franchise that has swung and missed on the position for centuries, there is no price too high to get it right.

Fields can change the fortunes of the Bears organization for the next decade. He can help to begin to erase the pain from whiffing on Mahomes and Watson and air out the stench of the Trubisky debacle.

The Bears have a chance to finally find the answer to the question that’s plagued the franchise since Sid Luckman generations ago. The Bears better not pass up the chance to get Fields or it’ll cost Pace and Nagy their jobs.