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What Reported Offers Mean for Justin Fields

ESPN's Adam Schefter reports the Bears have been receiving multiple trade offers for the first pick and concludes the first pick is officially for sale.
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What Reported Offers Mean for Justin Fields
What Reported Offers Mean for Justin Fields

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Speculation over the Bears trading the first pick of the draft heightened somewhat Monday thanks to a report by ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Schefter tweeted the Bears have been approached by multiple teams about the first pick and concluded the No. 1 in the draft is now "for sale."

It's probably a half-step forward from what Poles said when the season ended.

"If the phones go off and there are certain situations where that can help us, then we'll go down that avenue too," Poles said then. "I think we have really good flexibility to help this team, regardless if it's making the pick there or moving back a little bit or moving back a lot. We'll be open to everything."

With two months to go until the draft, everything still can and probably will happen.

However, the report, which Schefter attributed to "sources," does indicate something very new which needs to be remembered: Forget the trade Justin Fields stuff because if the first pick really is "for sale," the Bears are not trading the first pick if they also plan to trade Fields.

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The only way that would happen is if Poles decided he was drafting a quarterback who was not someone he needed the first pick to draft, or if he was planning to trade for a quarterback who just emerged from two days of darkness when it was supposed to be four days. That would be Aaron Rodgers.

So if this marks the beginning of the trade-down speculation for which offer the Bears will take, it also effectively marks the end for one of the silliest suggestions in Bears history.

It's not necessarily a positive for Poles' draft status because if everyone knows he'll trade down instead of trading Fields, then it could diminish his leverage in trade talks.

But it sure can alleviate a lot of built up angst from Bears fans.

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Gene Chamberlain
GENE CHAMBERLAIN

Gene Chamberlain has covered the Chicago Bears full time as a beat writer since 1994 and prior to this on a part-time basis for 10 years. He covered the Bears as a beat writer for Suburban Chicago Newspapers, the Daily Southtown, Copley News Service and has been a contributor for the Daily Herald, the Associated Press, Bear Report, CBS Sports.com and The Sporting News. He also has worked a prep sports writer for Tribune Newspapers and Sun-Times newspapers.

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