Chicago Bears: Adam Schefter sheds light on Mitchell Trubisky’s future

Amidst the 2020 NFL Draft festivities, one expert thinks he knows the immediate future of Chicago Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky.

On Day 3 of the 2020 NFL Draft, Chicago Bears fans were in the middle of a very lengthy waiting period. The Bears drafted Cole Kmet and Jaylon Johnson in the second round on Friday night, but Chicago then went over 100 picks until they drafted again.

In the middle of the waiting, the Jacksonville Jaguars were on the clock with the pick they received from the Bears in exchange for quarterback Nick Foles. With that pick in the fourth round, the Jaguars selected linebacker Shaquille Quarterman out of Miami.

During the analysis of this selection, Trey Wingo brought in ESPN’s Adam Schefter to speak on how this connects to the Bears and their quarterback competition with Foles and Mitchell Trubisky.

Schefter immediately brought up the fact that the Bears have to make a decision on whether or not to exercise Trubisky’s fifth-year option. His thoughts on the matter? There is no chance general manager Ryan Pace exercises the option.

The excerpt from NFL Network and ESPN’s broadcast is as follows:

"“The Bears haven’t said anything publicly about whether or not they will pick up the fifth-year option in Trubisky’s contract, but when you talk to people around they league, they don’t believe the Bears will.”"

Schefter also tweeted the news:

This is probably what most have been thinking for a while now, but with Schefter’s name on the report, it becomes everything but set in stone. Trubisky very well might be in his last season with the Bears as we speak, and I for one am completely satisfied with that.

When Chicago brought in Foles, they did it with purpose. Foles wouldn’t have agreed to restructuring his contract if he didn’t think he had a good shot to become the starting quarterback for the Bears. He did so with good reason.

Now, could Trubisky end up back in Chicago as the team’s second string quarterback in 2021? That’s not out of the realm of possibilities, but it also depends on how the rest of the league views next year’s draft class headlined by Trevor Lawrence.

When all is said and done, I think Foles wins the job for 2020 and plays well enough for the Bears to be competitive. In 2021, they move on from Trubisky and look to draft the ultimate successor to Foles in next year’s draft.

For now, we can only hope that both Bears quarterbacks do indeed play well during training camp and the preseason (if there is one), giving the fans hope for this coming season and proving the competition was as useful as Pace thought it would be.