Finding a franchise quarterback has been a lengthy and never-ending fight for the Chicago Bears . They typically get it wrong.

In the 2017 NFL Draft, the Bears owned the No. 3 overall pick and traded up one spot so they could select Mitch Trubisky. It did not work. Eight picks later, the Kansas City Chiefs took a young quarterback by the name of Patrick Mahomes.

After it became clear that Trubisky was not going to pan out, the Bears used the No. 11 pick in 2021 on Justin Fields. While that ended up being a weak quarterback class, the next pick after Fields was star pass-rusher Micah Parsons.

After a couple of disappointing years, the Bears again decided they did not have the right quarterback, and thanks to a shrewd trade in 2023 with the Carolina Panthers that allowed Carolina to

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