The Chicago Bears hold the top pick for the 2024 draft, after an earlier trade with bottom dwellers Carolina, and will look to pick up the best of the best.
This means current quarterback Justin Fields could be heading off to another woods, with the Bears missing out on picking up CJ Stroud and Bryce Young.
“I mean, life isn’t fair,” Fields told Josh Schrock of NBC Sports Chicago. “I’m just focused on what I can control, and the rest is in God’s hands.
“Wherever, if I’m here next year, if I’m not, football doesn’t define who I am as a person. My happiness will still be in the same place, will still be in God. . .. I know that God’s got me, and I’m going to be good.
“I’m very blessed in the position I am in, and I think a million people would love to be in the position I am right now. So really just, I’m not taking that for granted and just taking each and every moment I have every day up here to the fullest.”
Fields was drafted 11th overall in 2021 and knows how the business of recruiting works, so admits there is not much he can do but play his best, have fun and pick up valued experience.
“I’ve had moments in my life to where I’ve wanted things to happen that didn’t go that way, and it ended up going another way and it worked out better than I ever could have imagined.
“That’s really why I just don’t stress about stuff that happens, and just controlling what I control and like I said earlier just being the best person I can be and striving to be the best player I can be.”
Content creator Petros Augousti has been a sportswriter for more than 20 years, working for some of the biggest media role-players globally including stints at Reuters, GQ magazine, Sports Illustrated and Multi-choice (SuperSport). He was a communications director for a professional soccer team for eight years, at one of the biggest clubs in Africa. He has been head of content for an award-winning multi-national free-to-play sports platform, headquartered out of Dubai, and focussing on Premier League soccer.
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