Chicago Bears: Playoff berth clearly defines quarterback options in 2021
By Ryan Heckman
2. The Chicago Bears won’t have a shot at any other free agent quarterback
Because the Bears will end up spending some cash on Trubisky, they now have zero options in free agency. Chicago already has the rest of Nick Foles’ contract to deal with, and paying Trubisky to come back for another year basically takes them out of the conversation for a free agent quarterback.
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The one option they would have, however, is to try and rid themselves of the remaining money wrapped up in Foles. If the Bears chose to cut him, they’d be hit with over $14 million in dead cap. Next year, they have an out with about half of that in dead cap. The logical option, then, is to try and trade Foles for absolutely whatever they can get.
Let’s say on the off-chance that the Bears are able to trade Foles early on in the offseason. Then, and only then, would they actually have a slim chance to go after a guy like Dak Prescott. That would also require the Bears opening up more cap space by letting go of some cap casualties or restructuring some contracts in a big way.
That’s not a likely scenario, so don’t count on it.
With the way the Bears are invested in Foles and how Trubisky looked in the majority of the games during their mini run, a free agent quarterback is out of the question.