Chicago Bears: Don’t think about trading for Josh Rosen

As the world wonders what the Chicago Bears will do at the quarterback position this offseason, general manager Ryan Pace needs to avoid Josh Rosen.

There’s no doubt that whatever the Chicago Bears do this offseason at the quarterback position will end up having major impacts on the franchise for the next few years. With a crazy offseason ready to begin that could see quarterbacks like Tom Brady, Derek Carr, and Cam Newton get moved, one name that the Bears need to avoid is Josh Rosen.

Everyone knows the story of Rosen. He was a top ten pick in the 2018 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals. Yet a year later, he was traded to the Miami Dolphins. Many expected Rosen to be a franchise quarterback in the NFL. Yet even in Miami, he’d lose the starting job to veteran journeyman Ryan Fitzpatrick.

At the NFL level, discussions involving players are always happening. A player that’s looked at as being immoveable one year may end up getting traded or released and on another team next year.

The reality of things is that Rosen is heading into his third season in the NFL and nobody is sure if he can even be a franchise quarterback. However, on the other hand, Rosen is just 22 years old and has plenty of time to get his career back on track.

Most would argue that Rosen would be able to push Mitchell Trubisky and while this is true to a certain extent, keep in mind that Rosen started three games in 2019 and then somehow managed to lose the starting job to Fitzpatrick a second time.

At the NFL level, continuity is something that is needed for any quarterback to be successful. In a hypothetical scenario, let’s say Rosen gets traded to the Bears. He’d be playing in his third offensive scheme in three years.

To top it all off, you’d basically be starting all over again with a rookie in terms of developing him. In other words, it could take a few years for Rosen to reach his full potential. And the issue with that is the Bears Super Bowl window isn’t as open as most thought it was six months ago.

The point is that the Bears are better off signing a quarterback in free agency to push Trubisky and drafting someone that Nagy can groom to be the starter in 2021 if the Trubisky experiment fails in its last chance.

So there you have it. While some will want to take a chance on Rosen, he has his own set of issues that need to examined before thinking of potentially seeing him in navy and orange next season and sitting on the sidelines at Soldier Field.