2017 NFL Season: 5 teams with the worst quarterback situations in the league
By Peter Panacy
No. 3: Chicago Bears
QB Depth Chart: Mike Glennon, Mitchell Trubisky, Mark Sanchez, Connor Shaw
The Chicago Bears make it this high on our NFL list of bad-quarterback situations for a number of reasons.
It’s impossible to overlook the NFL Draft trade-up to No. 2, which allowed Chicago to land North Carolina QB Mitchell Trubisky in Round 1. The deal cost the Bears three draft picks, two this year, and the 49ers weren’t going to fathom taking Trubisky at this spot anyway. Chicago could have simply waited one more spot.
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But the Bears didn’t, and the rest of the league was left laughing as a result.
Sure, Trubisky was the highest-touted signal-caller in the draft. Yet his lone year starting at the collegiate level sure had many scouts wondering if his skill set would be enough at the pro level.
To make things even worse, the Bears signed veteran quarterback Mike Glennon to a three-year, $45 million contract this offseason. That’s an awful lot of money to spend on a guy who hasn’t started a game since 2014.
Mark Sanchez? No. Connor Shaw? No.
In an ideal world, Glennon holds things down for 2017 well enough, while Trubisky develops.
And if Trubisky winds up being a good-to-great QB in the NFL, Chicago may end up having the last laugh.
But that seems oh-so remote right now.