Justin Fields’ rookie season: A game-by-game look at how the Chicago Bears QB played

How did Chicago Bears QB Justin Fields fare successful his rookie season?

He missed 5 of the Bears’ last 7 games, and the Bears went 2-8 successful the games Fields started.

In 12 games — including 10 starts — Fields completed 159 of 270 passes for 1,870 yards with 7 touchdowns and 10 interceptions for a passer standing of 73.2.

Here’s a game-by-game look astatine Fields’ 2021-22 campaign.

Preseason crippled No. 1: Bears 20, Dolphins 13

The archetypal large boost to Justin Fields mania didn’t get until the 3rd 4th Saturday day astatine Soldier Field.

The Bears rookie backmost evaded Dolphins linebacker Tyshun Render adjacent the 15-yard line, sprinted to his near and past lowered his enarthrosis to plow into the extremity portion for an 8-yard touchdown run.

Bears fans who apt had been taking deep, calming breaths and reminding themselves it was lone the preseason opener for astir of the archetypal fractional fto escaped with excitement.

Fields’ NFL preseason debut didn’t get disconnected to a beauteous start, but the first-round draught prime did capable by the clip helium near the crippled to support the hype bid rolling.

In astir 2 quarters of work, Fields completed 14 of 20 passes for 142 yards and a 30-yard touchdown to Jesse James and rushed for 33 yards and a touchdown connected 5 carries. Even if it was against Dolphins backups, it was capable to further the speech astir whether Fields is going to propulsion Bears coaches to commencement him implicit seasoned Andy Dalton aboriginal successful the regular season.

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Preseason crippled No. 2: Bills 41, Bears 15

The 2nd preseason crippled was not a pleasant acquisition for Bears fans, who not lone watched the backmost the Bears discarded — Mitch Trubisky — airy it up but besides didn’t get their desired archetypal glimpse of Justin Fields until the 2nd half. They astatine 1 constituent booed Bears starting backmost Andy Dalton, who finished his 2 quarters 11-for-17 for 146 yards, a 73-yard touchdown walk to Rodney Adams and an interception.

Fields (9-for-19, 80 yards, a 59.1 passer rating) was acold from spectacular successful the 2nd fractional and surely was not arsenic awesome arsenic helium was successful his preseason debut against the Dolphins. He besides made a rookie mistake successful the 4th quarter, failing to relationship for a blitz from Bills linebacker Andre Smith, who crushed Fields, sent his helmet flying and forced a fumble. A roughing-the-passer punishment negated the harm of that mistake. But it was a reminder that Fields indispensable proceed to enactment astir his inexperience, particularly aft helium produced lone 9 points connected 34 plays implicit six second-half possessions.

Before the game, Trubisky greeted Fields, whom helium said helium archetypal met erstwhile Fields visited North Carolina arsenic a precocious schooler.

Trubisky adjacent had immoderate proposal for the subordinate who replaced him arsenic Chicago’s large backmost hope.

“Just my proposal to him and truly to anybody is to enactment hard and dainty radical close and bully things volition happen,” helium said. “He’s a talented kid. He’s going to bash well.”

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Preseason crippled No. 3: Bears 27, Titans 24

Justin Fields darted to the close retired of the pouch and focused connected the Nissan Stadium extremity portion arsenic Titans antiaircraft lineman Teair Tart chased him.

The Bears rookie backmost saw choky extremity Jesper Horsted down 2 defenders and fired the pass, which Horsted reached to drawback earlier helium rolled retired of the extremity zone.

The 20-yard touchdown walk with 52 seconds to play successful the 2nd 4th was Fields’ last play of his archetypal NFL preseason. It was a bully ending to an different humble outing, thing for Bears fans to clasp connected to until they spot the first-round prime successful crippled enactment again.

That day is marked arsenic TBD.

After Fields completed 7 of 10 passes for 54 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 13 yards connected 2 carries successful a 27-24 triumph implicit the Titans, helium returns to Lake Forest arsenic the backup to Andy Dalton. Bears manager Matt Nagy has pledged implicit and implicit again to commencement the seasoned Dalton successful the play opener Sept. 12 against the Rams, and Fields’ show successful the 3rd preseason crippled wasn’t going to alteration that.

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Week 1: Rams 34, Rams 14

Justin Fields played lone 5 snaps successful the Week 1, though Matt Nagy noted the crippled concern — with the Bears down aboriginal and getting into the two-minute discourtesy — constricted immoderate of those snaps. Fields’ NFL debut came connected the 4th violative play, a run-pass enactment that helium turned into a 9-yard walk down the close sideline to Marquise Goodwin to get to the Rams 3-yard line.

That and the touchdown tally were the 2 astir palmy plays. The others, including a shovel walk to Allen Robinson for a summation of 1 gait successful the 3rd quarter, were little notable.

Three of the plays were successful the reddish zone. The remainder of the clip Fields said helium acted arsenic if helium were successful the game, repeating the play telephone erstwhile it came done arsenic if calling it successful the huddle and keeping his legs lukewarm successful lawsuit Nagy called upon him.

Fields said the constricted opportunities weren’t hard to grip due to the fact that they had been going implicit the scenarios successful practice.

“You get a consciousness astir the atmosphere, spot however accelerated those guys are coming,” Fields said. “It’s antithetic erstwhile you’re really connected the tract alternatively than being connected the sideline, truthful you conscionable get that acquisition connected there. Just being retired there, conscionable getting utilized to the velocity and stuff.”

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Week 2: Bears 20, Bengals 17

On third-and-9 with the Bears clinging to a three-point pb astatine Soldier Field, Justin Fields saw “a big, wide hole” unfastened to his left.

The rookie backmost took off, slid done the grasp of Bengals antiaircraft extremity Trey Hendrickson and bushed antiaircraft extremity Cam Sample to the first-down marker with 2 minutes, 45 seconds to play. David Montgomery followed with a brace of runs to summation different archetypal down, and the Bears held connected for a 20-17 victory.

Fields volition person a batch to close from his archetypal extended NFL outing aft helium played the full 2nd fractional due to the fact that of Andy Dalton’s genu injury, which inactive is being evaluated. Fields completed 6 of 13 passes for 60 yards, rushed 10 times for 31 yards and threw a fourth-quarter interception that the Bengals turned into a touchdown 1 play later.

But successful a crippled that got a small excessively adjacent for comfortableness astatine the end, that 10-yard scramble helped Fields decorativeness connected a precocious enactment and springiness the Bears (1-1) their archetypal triumph of the season.

“I don’t deliberation I’m pleased with however I played astatine all,” Fields said. “There’s a batch much successful maine that I person to show. That’s going to travel with time. I cognize it’s not going to hap overnight, truthful I’m conscionable going to support grinding and nary substance what happens, I cognize I’m meant for this. I’m meant to beryllium here.”

The large question is whether Fields volition person an accidental to amusement much of what helium tin bash successful Week 3 successful Cleveland.

“I’ll beryllium prepared,” Fields said. “I’m going to bash the aforesaid happening that I did this past week, and if Andy can’t go, past I’ll beryllium getting reps with the first-team offense, truthful I deliberation I’ll adjacent beryllium much prepared for that than I was today.”

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Week 3: Browns 26, Bears 6

As Justin Fields stood successful a cramped media country underneath FirstEnergy Stadium aft his archetypal NFL start, the Chicago Bears rookie backmost began to get goosebumps.

And not the bully kind.

“The mode I consciousness close now, I’m not utilized to this,” helium said. “I don’t similar feeling similar this. … Literally portion I’m saying this, I’m getting goosebumps due to the fact that I conscionable don’t similar feeling similar this. So I’m conscionable going to get backmost and I’m going to work.”

Fields had ne'er had a time rather similar Sunday’s 26-6 nonaccomplishment to the Cleveland Browns, erstwhile the excitement of the first-round pick’s archetypal afloat crippled was pummeled again and again into the tract by the Browns’ 9 sacks.

It started with 4 minutes, 18 seconds to play successful the archetypal quarter, erstwhile Jadeveon Clowney shoved past Bears close tackle Germain Ifedi to instrumentality down Fields for a nonaccomplishment of 10 yards.

Over the remainder of the game, Fields had lone 1 extended thrust successful which helium wasn’t sacked. Myles Garrett acceptable a Browns franchise grounds with 4½ sacks, which included easy moving astir near tackle Jason Peters. Clowney had two, and 4 different players chipped in.

Beyond that, Fields and the Bears didn’t find immoderate bushed arsenic they netted 47 yards of offense. Fields completed 6 of 20 passes for 68 yards and nary touchdowns and rushed for 12 yards connected 3 carries. According to CBS, the Bears’ 1.1 yards per play was the second-worst mean of immoderate squad this century.

Bumps are to beryllium expected arsenic Fields begins a travel the Bears anticipation volition pb to him becoming the franchise quarterback, but helium and manager Matt Nagy intelligibly were stunned astatine however atrocious it became Sunday.

“(It’s) benignant of similar you’re successful a acheronian abstraction and you conscionable privation to bash everything you tin to conscionable get a win,” Fields said. “Like nary substance what it is, nary substance however agelong I person to enactment successful the facility. No substance what.”

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Week 4: Bears 24, Lions 14

A week aft Justin Fields was sacked 9 times and had 1 nett passing yard, helium completed 11 of 17 passes for 209 yards and 1 interception and was sacked erstwhile successful the Week 4 triumph implicit the Lions. The rookie backmost deed wide receivers Allen Robinson and Darnell Mooney with heavy shots.

“I was conscionable blessed to spot america get backmost connected way this week and execute from the O-line to the receivers to the moving backs to me, truthful it was a bully day.”

During the week starring up to the game, Nagy declined to uncover who would beryllium calling plays. But Nagy acknowledged aft the crippled that violative coordinator Bill Lazor handled it Sunday.

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Week 5: Bears 20, Raiders 9

In his archetypal crippled since being named the starting quarterback going forward, Justin Fields tossed his archetypal vocation touchdown walk successful a 20-9 roadworthy triumph implicit the Raiders.

Fields, who made his 3rd consecutive start, played done a mates of hard hits to implicit 12 of 20 passes for 111 yards and a touchdown — a 2-yarder to Jesper Horsted.

Fields turned successful a gutsy performance, playing each but a fewer plays contempt hyperextending his near genu successful the 2nd quarter.

“That lad of a subordinate is tough,” manager Matt Nagy said of Fields. “He is tough. He’s proven that erstwhile helium was successful college. He proved it retired here.”

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Week 6: Packers 24, Bears 14

Justin Fields saw Green Bay Packers chemoreceptor tackle Kenny Clark leap earlier the shot was snapped precocious successful the archetypal 4th Sunday astatine Soldier Field and prepared to instrumentality a changeable connected what helium assumed was a escaped play.

Fields moved to his close and ripped a heavy walk good implicit Allen Robinson and into the extremity zone, wherever Packers information Darnell Savage wrapped his arms astir the shot arsenic helium tumbled to the ground.

The play would person been nary large woody if officials had penalized Clark for jumping offside — but a punishment wasn’t called. Savage had intercepted Fields.

“When helium picked it off, I was confused connected wherefore determination weren’t immoderate flags connected the ground,” Fields said. “So I don’t cognize if the refs conscionable missed that oregon helium didn’t leap offside oregon what.”

Instead of the Bears getting a 5-yard punishment successful their favor, the interception swung momentum distant from the Bears successful the 24-14 nonaccomplishment to the Packers.

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Week 7: Buccaneers 38, Bears 3

Bears rookie backmost Justin Fields threw 3 interceptions and committed 5 turnovers successful a disastrous 38-3 nonaccomplishment to the Buccaneers astatine Raymond James Stadium.

He completed 22 of 32 passes for 184 yards with nary touchdowns and the 3 interceptions. He was sacked 4 times.

He didn’t travel crossed arsenic downcast talking astir the nonaccomplishment afterward, but the CBS cameras surely captured him connected the sideline successful a dour mood.

“It’s not conscionable 1 thing. It’s a clump of things,” Fields said. “I’m conscionable going to permission it astatine that. We’ve got to proceed to work. I mean, times similar this, times erstwhile you get blown out, you’ve got 2 choices — you tin either say, ‘F it, I’m going to stop. I’m going to halt working. I’m going to halt playing.’ Or you tin spell the different way and say, ‘I’m going to support working.’ And I cognize me, myself, nary substance however galore picks I throw, nary substance however galore L’s we take, I’m going to support going. That’s conscionable the information and that’s conscionable who I am. Never going to halt and I’m ever going to support going.

“It’s not truly anger. It’s conscionable similar … I’ve ne'er been successful this presumption wherever I’m losing, truthful I don’t cognize however to feel. My lone absorption to this is conscionable to support working. I’m not aggravated astatine all. At the extremity of the day, it happened. We person atrocious days. Y’all person atrocious days. And y’all tin either get depressed oregon y’all tin get up the adjacent time and spell to work. And I deliberation that’s what our squad is going to bash and that’s what I’m going to do. I’m not aggravated astatine all. Just (bad stuff) happens.”

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Week 8: 49ers 33, Bears 22

When Justin Fields hopped crossed the extremity enactment successful the southbound extremity portion astatine Soldier Field and flung the shot into the aerial successful celebration, the infinitesimal felt significant.

Yes, to the Bears fans who screamed successful appreciation of Fields’ insane 22-yard touchdown scramble but besides to the rookie backmost himself.

“Yeah, I’m not going to lie, that was awesome,” Fields said. “I was excited, arsenic y’all could see.”

If determination was a metallic lining to the Bears’ 33-22 nonaccomplishment to the 49ers, it was that Fields had immoderate of the spectacular plays fans person dreamed astir since the Bears drafted him astatine No. 11 successful the spring.

Fields completed 19 of 27 passes for 175 yards and an 8-yard touchdown walk to Jesse James. The Bears rookie besides yet fto escaped connected the ground, totaling 103 yards connected 10 carries, including 4 runs of 15 yards oregon more, against a 49ers defence that has had overmuch amended occurrence slowing opponents’ passing games.

He is the 2nd Bears backmost since astatine slightest 1960 to deed 100 oregon much rushing yards, dating to Bobby Douglass, who did it 3 times.

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Week 9: Steelers 29, Bears 27

After kicker Chris Boswell made a 52-yard tract extremity to enactment the Steelers up by six points precocious successful the 4th fourth astatine Heinz Field, Bears manager Matt Nagy looked down the sideline astatine Justin Fields.

The Bears rookie backmost was smiling.

“My mindset was like, ‘It’s time. We’re here,’” Fields said. “You tin beryllium the feline who ever gets enactment successful that presumption and doesn’t amusement up. Or you tin beryllium that feline who shows up successful large moments. That’s what my mindset was. I was conscionable calm and focused connected showing up.”

Over the adjacent 1 minute, 6 seconds connected the play clock, Fields showed up.

He led the Bears connected a seven-play, 75-yard drive, capped by a 16-yard touchdown walk to Darnell Mooney to instrumentality the archetypal Bears pb of the game.

“(Fields) stepped up and made a batch of plays, A-Rob arsenic well, Mooney, each those guys, and honestly and truly, we fto those guys down,” wrong linebacker Roquan Smith said aft the 29-27 loss.

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Week 11: Ravens 16, Bears 13

For those Bears fans hanging connected done this 3-7 play due to the fact that they astatine slightest tin ticker rookie backmost Justin Fields’ growth, the 16-13 nonaccomplishment to the Ravens was similar taking a helmet to the gut.

Fields missed astir of the 2nd half astatine Soldier Field aft suffering injured ribs, and his presumption is successful question for Thursday’s crippled against the Lions astatine Ford Field.

Bears manager Matt Nagy was typically evasive with his answers astir Fields’ wounded aft the game.

He said helium didn’t cognize if Fields’ ribs are broken, whether the wounded happened connected 1 play oregon was a effect of respective hits oregon if determination is simply a accidental Fields could retrieve successful clip for the Thanksgiving game.

Fields’ last play was a 6-yard tally with 12:12 to play successful the 3rd quarter. Ravens linebacker Tyus Bowser deed Fields and past pulled him down by his leg. Fields walked to the sideline and spent a mates of minutes talking with Bears grooming unit earlier heading into the wounded structure and past the locker room.

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Week 12: Bears 16, Lions 14

Justin Fields sat retired the Bears’ Week 12 win with what the NFL Network reported arsenic “tiny fractures” successful a fewer of his ribs.

“We’re truly fortunate that it’s thing long-term; it’s decidedly not an IR thing,” said Bears wide manager Ryan Pace connected his pregame amusement connected WBBM-AM 780. “It’s much of a day-to-day thing. We’ll get done this game. The bully happening astir it is you’ll person immoderate other clip aft this crippled to re-evaluate, not conscionable Justin but immoderate different guys, get them healthy, and get them acceptable to roll.”

Bears manager Matt Nagy said earlier this week helium didn’t cognize whether the wounded was from a azygous play oregon aggregate hits. Fields near the Week 11 nonaccomplishment to the Ravens aboriginal successful the 3rd 4th aft helium was taken down connected a 6-yard run.

The Thanksgiving crippled was the archetypal crippled Fields has missed since helium took implicit arsenic Bears starter for then-injured Andy Dalton successful Week 3. In alleviation work, Dalton completed 24 of 39 passes for 317 yards, a touchdown and an interception to pb the Bears to the triumph implicit the winless Lions.

Week 13: Cardinals 33, Bears 22

Justin Fields’ lack — owed to not being medically cleared to instrumentality from breached ribs — made for a acold little compelling crippled for Bears fans already looking past this play to the future.

Andy Dalton’s performances successful spot of Fields — including the Bears’ lone triumph during the past 8 weeks against the Lions connected Thanksgiving — surely mean a batch to the 11th-year NFL veteran, who is connected a one-year woody and trying to beryllium he’s inactive a prime starter.

But successful the expansive scheme, successful the mediate of this losing season, evaluating Fields’ maturation is what would person made Sunday’s crippled meaningful. Fields’ presumption arsenic the Bears hole to caput to Lambeau Field to look the Packers connected “Sunday Night Football” volition beryllium watched intimately aft helium was constricted successful signifier past week.

Fields mightiness not beryllium capable to extremity the misery, but astatine slightest helium tin summation acquisition for immoderate is up for the Bears.

“The lone happening we tin bash is support warring and sticking together,” Nagy said. “I cognize it tin dependable old. I cognize it tin dependable monotonous. I gotcha.

“But erstwhile you’re successful these moments, erstwhile you’re successful that locker country unneurotic and you’re warring unneurotic … we’re ever going to springiness it everything that we’ve got. That’s each we tin do, nary substance who we’re playing.”

Week 14: Packers 45, Bears 30

Like galore of his caller appearances, Justin Fields walked distant from the Week 14 loss with bully and atrocious moments to bespeak on.

The rookie said helium played astatine “about 90%” due to the fact that helium inactive felt “bearable” symptom with each propulsion and besides was conscious of protecting himself from hits to his 3 cracked ribs. He besides had tests done aft the crippled connected his near hand, which helium said was swollen.

He completed 18 of 33 passes for 224 yards with 2 touchdowns, 2 interceptions and the mislaid fumble. He besides rushed for 74 yards connected 9 carries.

Fields’ costliest mistake came connected a propulsion to Darnell Mooney successful the 2nd quarter. Fields said helium should person thrown the shot much outside, and Packers cornerback Rasul Douglas jumped successful for the interception and a 55-yard instrumentality for a touchdown.

But Fields besides helped thrust the Bears’ 27-21 halftime lead, including responding to the pick-six by hitting Damiere Byrd with a bully walk up the mediate that Byrd turned into a 54-yard touchdown connected the adjacent drive.

“He’s truthful mentally tough,” Nagy said. “In this moment, successful this stage, erstwhile you propulsion a pick-six, that’s not easy. A batch of guys bent connected to that. Not Justin. It really juices him up a small spot and helium gets fired up.”

Week 15: Vikings 17, Bears 9

Justin Fields was sacked 3 times for a nonaccomplishment of 30 yards, including doubly successful the 3rd quarter, successful the loss connected “Monday Night Football” to the Vikings. One was for a nonaccomplishment of 14 yards to ruin a drive. Another was connected a botched fourth-and-1 play.

The Bears went 0-for-4 successful the reddish portion earlier a meaningless touchdown astatine the extremity of the game. That included stalling connected consecutive fourth-quarter drives astatine the 9- and 13-yard lines.

That marque of discombobulation defined the full nighttime — the team’s eighth decision successful 9 games.

“That’s been the story,” Fields said aft the game. “That’s been the communicative of the twelvemonth for sure.”

His 12 fumbles are the most successful the NFL. The rookie had 2 much successful this crippled and mislaid 1 erstwhile Vikings cornerback Cameron Dantzler knocked the shot escaped for a takeaway.

Week 16: Bears 25, Seahawks 24

Justin Fields was inactive for the Bears’ Week 16 crippled against the Seahawks aft the rookie backmost tweaked his ankle successful the 2nd 4th of the Bears’ nonaccomplishment to the Vikings and played done the injury. He was constricted successful signifier Wednesday but didn’t enactment Thursday oregon Friday, though manager Matt Nagy said the wounded was not getting worse.

Nagy said earlier successful the week that helium didn’t deliberation the wounded would support Fields out, but helium said Friday that the Bears were putting Fields’ wellness archetypal successful starting Nick Foles instead.

The third-string backmost hit Jimmy Graham for a touchdown and Damiere Byrd made a beauteous drawback connected the two-point conversion to assistance the Bears to the 25-24 win. It was Foles’ archetypal commencement since November 2020.

Week 17: Bears 29, Giants 3

Without question the Week 17 was arsenic a missed accidental for rookie Justin Fields, who has been bumped retired of the plans with a lingering ankle injury. Fields was constricted successful each 3 practices during the week and, contempt being listed arsenic questionable connected the wounded report, isn’t being considered for backup duties Sunday. (Those volition beryllium to Nick Foles.)

Coach Matt Nagy said Fields is inactive experiencing notable symptom during definite shot movements.

“We privation to beryllium capable to person him bash everything,” Nagy said. ‘And helium wants that too. So whether it’s scrambling extracurricular of the pocket, extending plays with his legs, immoderate it is, with the bundle helium brings we privation him to beryllium arsenic adjacent to 100% arsenic we tin get him. And he’s conscionable not determination close now.”

It was Fields’ 4th crippled missed due to the fact that of wounded and takes distant a accidental for him to summation further on-field acquisition astatine the extremity of his archetypal season.

While Nagy said the rookie backmost is getting adjacent physically, helium besides emphasized the request for Fields to beryllium afloat prepared mentally if he’s going to instrumentality 1 much plaything astatine things successful Week 18.

Week 18: Bears astatine Vikings

The Bears placed rookie backmost Justin Fields connected the reserve/COVID-19 list 4 days earlier helium was slated to commencement the play finale against the Vikings.

Fields said successful November that helium is vaccinated, truthful his placement connected the database would beryllium the effect of a affirmative test.

He had practiced successful afloat the time before, arsenic helium was gearing up to marque his archetypal commencement successful 3 weeks. He missed the erstwhile 2 games arsenic helium recovered from an ankle wounded and besides missed 2 games successful November and December with cracked ribs.

Fields missed 5 of the Bears’ last 7 games. The Bears went 2-8 successful the games Fields started.

In 12 games, including 10 starts, Fields completed 159 of 270 passes for 1,870 yards with 7 touchdowns and 10 interceptions for a passer standing of 73.2. He has been sacked 36 times and mislaid 5 fumbles portion moving for 420 yards and 2 touchdowns.