OCTOBER 16: When speaking publicly about Fields’ injury, head coach Matt Eberflus confirmed the 24-year-old is dealing with a dislocated thumb. Fields is doubtful to play in Week 7, but more clarity on his return timetable will likely not emerge until later in the week, including a decision on whether or not surgery will be in play (h/t ESPN’s Courtney Cronin). Much will depend on the swelling in the affected thumb, but for now Bagent can be penciled in as Chicago’s starter moving forward.
OCTOBER 15: Early into the second half of the Bears’ loss to the Vikings today, third-year quarterback Justin Fields was forced out of the game with an injury to his throwing hand. Specifically, according Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, the injury was to Fields’ thumb, affecting his grip on the football. Fields was unable to effectively grip the ball and spent the remainder of the game on the sideline as a result. 
Fields third year in the NFL started off in a rocky manner as fans continued to question his effectiveness as an NFL starter. Three straight losses to open the year while throwing three touchdowns to five interceptions and only averaging 175.33 passing yards per game only added to the mounting critiques.
In the team’s past two contests leading up to today’s game, though, Fields was beginning to show the promise becoming of his high draft status. In a close loss and a big first win of the season, Fields threw eight touchdowns to one interception while averaging 308.5 passing yards per game. Coming off those two strong performances, a divisional contest against the struggling Vikings was becoming a game to watch for Fields. Unfortunately, the injury to his hand kept him from continuing that recent success with a big second half.
In his absence, Chicago put in undrafted rookie quarterback Tyson Bagent out of Shepherd University. In his NFL debut, Bagent was mostly efficient, aside from a desperation interception in the game’s dying moments, while being mostly conservative as a substitute. After a critical fumble that ended up being returned for a touchdown, Bagent wasn’t able to erase the Bears’ 13-point deficit, but he did lead the team on a touchdown drive to make it a one-score game.
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, head coach Matt Eberflus disclosed that the X-rays on Fields’ hand were negative, indicating no broken bones. He will undergo an MRI tomorrow in order to determine if there is any other potential damage that may take time to recover from. If the MRI turns up something that will force Fields to miss time, or if Fields is still struggling to grip the ball next week, Bagent may hear his name called again especially if fellow backup Nathan Peterman remains unavailable.
Nathan peterman should never see an NFL field again. how this guy even is even getting camp invites is beyond any sensible reasoning.
He hands-off a beautiful ball gota give em that lol
Odds on that the Bears-Chargers game gets flexed out of Sunday night at the end of October. Jaguars-Steelers looks mighty attractive now.
Home is where you make it.
The author of this post is either off his regular beat or totally uninformed or just plain dumb. Peterman was not and is not the regular back up. Bagent took over number 2 weeks ago.
Unless it was edited after this comment, it says “fellow backup,” not “regular backup.” Either way, at this point, Kaepernick, who hasn’t seen the field in seven years, would be a better choice than him.
Bears will get picks 1&2 next year.
And whiff on them.
I get that its only a really small sample size, but notice how Bagent makes quick decisions which helped the Bears move down the field?
The issues came when he lingered waiting to throw (and I think his arm was stopped when trying to throw to DJ toward the End zone). Im not saying Bagent is this years Brock Purdy, but I think it will be good to see what he can do.
In any case, the issue once again is the lack of D and O lines. Without improvement it will not matter what QB they draft.. By the way, Caleb Williams happened to look awfully pedestrian vs a well motivated ND squad.
The problem isn’t with the QB’s. They are completely different species. Fields is best when he moves around the pocket or more specifically rolls out. Why Getsy kept calling for 7 step drops the whole game is just plain stupidity. Their inability to change gears when the defense changes theirs is inexcusable. Bagent on the other hand, Makes quick throws and quicker decisions and is cool as the other side of the pillow. He showed that all pre season. Until they get coaches in here to help these guys out by simply calling the right plays this is what you get. Did Bagent make mistakes? Well yeah, But it was his first time in a game that counted.He was still calm and collected even when Rome was burning down around him. It’s not the O line or the QB’s. It’s the blocking SCHEMES and utter lack of knowing when to change gears that’s appalling. Anyone who was expecting Whitehair to play C obviously has never seen him play there and the reason why he was removed from there in the first place was the lousy snaps. Now he’s a 14 million dollar waste that can’t play G or C. The biggest contracts they have are ridiculous failures( Whitehair and Jackson) Plus Patrick is a 6 million dollar waste and so is Davis.Horrible FA signings. They better get some Lineman in here next year. And their pathetic allergy to signing and drafting of Scmhidt and Risner would have gone miles towards helping out the line. Plenty of blame to go around. I don’t see how you can let these guys make the 1-2 draft picks next year or spend 90 million in FA next year. Sorry.
The Bears are putting a bad product on display but setting fire to Jim Rome to attract an audience is going to extremes.
I’d love to see what’s on that plastic sheet that Getsy looks at all game. I’m betting it’s Hagar the Horrible cartoons.
I think the Vikings own the rights to the Hagar cartoons. The Born Loser would be more appropriate for Getsy and the Bears.