The Bears dilemma: Caleb or Justin, why not both?

It may be the biggest “will they or won’t they” since season four of The Bachelor, or maybe Pam and Jim from the TV show The Office, or any others from the pick-your-favorite rom com.

Here is the situation: The Chicago Bear Football team has been the talk of the town (if that town happens to be pigskin saturated) ever since the Super Bowl ended.

The basic question for the uninitiated here, is will the Chicago team stick with Justin Fields as their quarterback OR will the Bears move on from Fields and select Caleb Williams, the uber-talented QB from USC.

The key, and the reason for the whole “will they or won't they ''hubbub, is that the Bears have the number one pick in the entire draft (courtesy of their trade with the Carolina Panthers), giving them complete control of the situation.

They can stick with Fields and trade the #1 pick to select more valuable players and draft choices from other teams (the number one pick is worth a lot!), or they can draft the top college QB of their choice—again most feel it is Caleb Williams, but others such as Jaden Daniels from LSU, Michael Penix from Washington and Drake Maye from North Carolina entice as well.

But let us here at The Chicago Star throw out another scenario. A way to completely discombobulate the entire “will they or won't they” scenario.

Take them both! Keep Fields AND draft Williams.

Why not?  Every team needs two good quarterbacks.  In case you haven’t followed football in say the last thirty years, quarterbacks get hurt! They get hit from all angles at all different times and be it through concussion, hand injuries, arm injuries or the dreaded torn ACL, they miss games. 

Sometimes they miss the entire season (for reference Google New York Jets and Aaron Rodgers who got hurt this year and was out for the season in the first quarter of the very first game!)

It happens.  Despite the new safety rules installed by the NFL, quarterbacks are still vulnerable.  They are sitting targets for mean, angry, large men.  I have long argued the most underrated position in all of sports is the backup quarterback, who in a moment's notice can be thrust into the game in the most important of roles.

So why not keep them both?

Let Fields see if he can finally put it all together in his upcoming 4th season.  Meanwhile, let Williams spend a year as a backup (someone named Patrick Mahomes did the same thing in Kansas City and it seemed to work out pretty well for him) and likely with any injuries to Fields, Williams will get to play in some games anyways. 

If Fields disappoints and is not able to take his game to the next level, then next year the Bears move on and install Williams as the future QB.  But if Fields should finally put it all together and become the flat out star he has shown—at times— the potential to be, then you have what we call a “good problem”.

Williams could then be trade bait and bring in a huge windfall of new players to help Fields even more. A win-win situation, I say.

So…as the sports talk junkies continue to thrill themselves with the “will they or won’t they” drama on the Bears quarterback situation, this space here is voting for “none of the above”.

Keep them both and keep everybody happy.

Except maybe the financial folks who have to pay them both—but that is a story for another day (or column).